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Futuristic phones are back… from the future! Courtesy of Mac Funamizu, the Cobalto concept phone from Minority Report is now rendered in the following images. You’ve got to love that transparent glass display and the deformable metal parts, that allow you to use either usual numeric keys, or an iPod-like dial.
Mac Funamizu goes even further and envisions his concept featuring 3D holography and being able to created 3D objects in thin air. The designer also created a PC with the same Minority Report concept, but more on that in another article.
For now, we’re stunned by the Cobalto phone, looking so slick and glossy that it could slip one’s hands for good. What features would you add to it?
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Designer Mac Funamizu has had his works showcased on our site a bunch of times and now he’s back for some more glory, thanks to the iPetals iPhone charger. This device also serves as a dock and its design is inspired from the personal solar charger created by Fandy Meng and dubbed Sunny Flower.
Mac Funamizu’s latest work uses solar energy to juice your iPhone and you can use it as a stand for the phone. It’s a sustainable product we’re dealing with and it integrates colored petals, mimicking a flower in bloom during the day and contracting in order to dock the iPhone.
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If you don’t know Mac Funamizu and his work, you have missed some very cool concepts of an industrial design guru. Well, we can save you and show you his brand new creation, the iAcqua2 iPhone Dock concept, pictured below.
We’re dealing with a futuristic concept, that incorporates a 3D screen, displaying stereoscopic images of a music visualizer and the photos in the iPhone’s memory, once the handset is docked.
The cylindrical shape and transparent body will appeal to all gadget freaks, well, at least till you mistake this gadget for a coffee mug or small kettle.
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If you haven’t heard about Mac Funamizu, be sure to check out his stunning works by clicking his name mentioned previously. The man is a visionary and a guru of future technology, or so think quite a bunch of tech enthusiasts. This time he created a very neat piece of work, the 3D Desktop Concept, based on holograms.
This technology could as well be used on phones or various portable gadgets, like laptops, that would become smaller, since their screens and maybe even keyboards will be replaced by projectors. In the case of Mac Funamizu’s concept, the user can pinch the projected image just like on the iPhone, in order to resize it.
There’s also the option of mimicking a typewriter’s paper, via a curled paper hologram, coming out of the keyboard, just for kicks. Also, we learn that all projected 3D objects are interactive and can be dragged, thrown or resized. Original and innovative, as usual!
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We’ve missed Mac Funamizu’s original and crazy (in the good way) concepts, so we’re excited to show you the Trou concept phone, a flexible handset that incorporates a projector and uses a “hologram system”. Funamizu entered his idea in a future mobile design competition with the theme “Design the mobile of 2020″. And so he did…
Mac Funamizu hopes that holography technology will greatly develop in 10 years, reaching mass production and mobile handsets. Gone will be the displays, replaced by a hole and a couple of 3D projectors that will create the needed interface and great visual effects. Also, we learn that this concept phone is made out of flexible and soft materials.
The flexible area around the “hole” will allow the user to wear the handset around his wrist and even take calls while wearing it like this. The 3D projectors are located inside the device’s flexible frame and they’ll create great graphics, as you can see in the image below. Another great idea from Mac Funamizu!
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Mac Funamizu is back and this is no April’s Fools, since he has created a very neat iPhone stand concept, that incorporates a touchscreen, speaker and projector. The iPhone can be docked at the top and the stand can be tilted to the side, allowing the photos, songs and video files to spread around just like water flow, coming out of a fountain.
These images will disappear in a couple of seconds, but if you touch them, they’ll be played (audio and video) and viewed (image). The incredible part will be revealed now: once the round dish surrounding the stand is full of images, they’ll be “spilled” on the surrounding area, thanks to the incorporated projector.
Afterwards, you’ll manipulate the files are you please, but now displayed as larger thumbnails. There’s also a full screen mode and if you ask me, this great concept idea slaps Microsoft’s Surface with a trout. Great work Mac!
Loading ...Mac Funamizu brings us his usual communication device concepts, this time a Sign Language Translator, meant for vocally challenged persons. Gestures will be captured on a sensory camera incorporated in the device and they’ll be translated into voice, allowing its users to communicate easily.
A wide selection of voices will be available on this communication device, so you’ll maybe hear your favorite singer/movie star “talking” to you.
Operating the Sign Language Translator is done through fairly basic actions: click the bottom part to reveal the speakers, open the speaker wider to increase the volume and click the bottom side back and shut it to turn the device off.
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We cover concept phones, but also all sorts of communication devices, like the very useful Speech Balloons concept design, that belongs to the famous Mac Funamizu. Remember the speech balloons (or speech bubbles) we saw in cartoons?
Well, imagine you’re using a transparent device that displays such balloons next to the people you’re watching, while translating their vocal communication to on-screen text.
This original concept would work great for hearing impaired people and we should mention that Mac Funamizu’s contraption will render stressed words larger than the ones that are whispered, for example. The balloons will also use arrows to indicate where the speech is coming from, while screams will be shown through bubbles with jags.
Environment sounds, like the ring of a telephone will be displayed as colored text and there will even be balloons that indicate speech from outside the viewed screen area. Last, Mac shows us a simpler version of the device, incorporated in a pair of glasses, but you should check out his site for more info on this great idea and other similar concepts.
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If it’s Mac Funamizu, we’re dealing with a concept phone that sports a transparent screen. The great designer is very keen on this technology, which also got used on his year end project, the Lupa phone.
The swivel concept handset features a transparent swivelling screen on top and a bottom touchscreen display that incorporates the function keys. There’s also a rotating click wheel on the specs list, with nav keys on it and a design that reminds us of the good old iPod.
You might want to know that “Lupa” is loupe in Spanish, Czech, Romanian and many other languages, although we wonder if the handset’s display can be used as one.
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Taking its inspiration from Samsung’s Flexible OLED (video below, after the images), the Wild Fold concept is basically a foldable mobile device, created by Mac Funamizu. He keeps the classic neat design, straight lines and all, that remind us of the Glassy concept phone.
As you can see, a foldable display/device is surely a more compact one and easier to carry.
I’m sure that the first prototype using this technology will be rather bulky, unlike Mac Funamizu’s thin handset, but if Sony and their hot flexible screens play a part in the release, we could see some brilliant tech.
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Futuristic phones are back… from the future! Courtesy of Mac Funamizu, the Cobalto concept phone from Minority Report is now rendered in the following images. You’ve got to love that transparent glass display and the deformable metal parts, that allow you to use either usual numeric keys, or an iPod-like dial.
