Another week, another batch of fanciful designs and concepts. Industrial designers produce the kind of tech you can only dream of, largely because they don’t concern themselves with problems like current tech limitations and physics. …But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the week’s top designs and hope for the best.
Join us on another look through this week’s best and most beautiful tech designs, courtesy of the world’s most creative thinkers. Want more conceptualising? Fill your boots with last week’s roundup of the best concept tech.
1. PowerPlant by Liam Higton-Shirt
We all want to save power at home, but actually acting on that desire is tough. The solution? Make your electricity usage link up to a living thing. The PowerPlant is a plant pot linked to a reservoir, which is in turn linked to your power usage. Use too much power and the plant doesn’t get fed. Save some ‘leccy and the plant lives. It’s your choice.
2. Xbox Prestige by Joseph Dumary
Xbox Kinect is stuffed full of top drawer tech, but does it have to be a separate device to the console its tethered to? The Prestige says it doesn’t. This is how a future Kinect could be built into a smaller yet more powerful 8-core Xbox. The console itself is entirely digital, and would run games from a Microsoft cloud service.
3. New NASA space helmet by Herald Urena
A tighter, more Master Chief-style space helmet design, crafted to for comfort and to make the wearer look and feel less vulnerable. No, really. Perhaps Herald Urena is worried about what we look like to the martians?
4. ADJUST Modular screen watch by NL1 Studio
Can you tell the time? Course you can; it’s easy. Almost too easy. If you fancy more of a challenge, eschew numbers and clock faces all together, as in this design for Tokyo Flash. The time can be told, so we’re led to believe, by learning a system of patterns lit up by 32 LED triangles. Simple.
5. Hello Tomorrow landline by Form & Drang
Can the humble home phone be saved by pumping it full of technology? Probably not, but we’ve nothing to lose by trying. This touchscreen beauty boasts an ultra-slim design wherein the handset peels away from the base unit. It’s also got video calling, apps and bespoke modes for home or office use. Or you could just buy a mobile phone.
Via YankoDesign & Tuvie
