Eichhorn – A Combination Of High-Quality Compact Camera And Action Camera
The concept camera Eichhorn (Squirrel) by German designers Katharina Walter and Marc Wahl is a combination of high-quality compact camera and action camera. It is designed in square format to create a distinctive brand recognition and for people who love sporting activities or just enjoy nature to take beautiful photos out in the field. The …
The HPSTR Pyramid – An Alternative Interface
The HPSTR Pyramid is an attempt to create an alternative interface to conventional knobs and slide controls. It's an approach to have the same basic and generic functionality a knob has but to achieve it with a more natural interaction. "I wanted to create an instrument that is generic enough to be used in different …
360° Book By Julie Mangeard
The 360° book is a concept by London based graphic designer Julie Mangeard exploring our new way of reading information due to internet. We now go from one link to another and do not read anymore from cover to cover. The round book does not have a begining, middle neither end. The reader is free …
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
Panoramic photography creates fascinating images. Very wide angle images are closer to the human field of view than conventional pictures. If seen through a panoramic viewer they let us experience a location as if we were there. Panoramic image stitching can create panoramas from pictures taken one after another. Unfortunately, acquiring the images takes a …
120° Snowboard Lock Concept Design
120° by Vim & Vigor Design is a snowboard lock concept design you can open without taking off your gloves. They say, "we noticed that current solutions available are not particularly secure, portable, or easy to use, and so we decided to take snowboard locks to the drawing board to find a better way to …
Could PhotoBot Be An Alternative To The Point And Shoot Photography?
Maybe. The interesting photoBot concept by Tommy Dykes is an automated camera that detects people's locations, such as on a party, and capture snaps all evening. Dykes explains his concept as the following: "photoBot is an alternative to the ‘point and shoot’ photography, building on people’s desire and passion to document aspects of their lives …
Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It
The Ukrainian-Danish artist Sergei Sviatchenko's intent and message might not be immediately clear or understandable, but he's one of the most influential innovators of modern collage and Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-460-1, $75) is the first comprehensive collection of his collage and painting. "In the world of contemporary art, …
Pentax Si — Minimally Minimal
The camera market is currently divided into three segments, the professionals SLRs, the new mirrorless form factor and the compact cameras. The mirrorless cameras are in the Goldilocks zone, where image quality and size are nicely balanced. They however lack ease of use, as use the same convoluted UI paradigm as SLR cameras. "For this …
A Camera That Is Controlled By Blinking And Squinting
Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou has designed and developed an interesting concept camera that follows your eye movement to take pictures of exactly what you see – and it can even identify your friends by their unique iris signature. The camera is called IRIS and it is controlled by blinking and squinting. "The …
The Instagram Socialmatic Concept Camera
Since Facebook has bought Instagram for nearly a billion dollars in cash and stock, many users, bloggers, economy experts have thought Instagram could build its first real photo camera. Imagine to pick the Instagram App icon and now imagine it as real camera. This is the main idea of ADR Studio at the base of …
