As an excellent alternative to the existing engine warning lights, Ambient Alerts have been unveiled. This helps drivers to diagnose faults within a car, in case it occurs. The problem with the existing systems is that they show very scanty information, which makes the drivers easily ignore the same. Serving as an excellent alternative, Ambient Alerts shows up constant status about the car’s present condition just like a heartbeat. In case of any unfavorable condition within the car, Ambient Alerts would send some sort of vibration every few minutes, which is enough to alert the driver. The steering wheel vibrates with every heartbeat just like a games controller and the corresponding status of the car is displayed on the screen. If the driver wishes to know more about the condition, he/she can tap the screen that would provide them with petite description of things happening inside the car.

Designer : Sam Grosset

Designer : Sam Grosset

Slavche Tanevski, an automotive designer of the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany has come out with an exceptional concept, The Mercedes-Benz Aria. The main goal was to design a sedan with a timeless design, which could combine a lustrous silhouette with dynamic proportions as well as sculptural surfaces. Giving the car high definition and character is the body surfaces, highly inspired by female body, violin, the Coke-Bottle that is supported by articulated lines. The way the interior is allied to the body and its modularity appears to be the main characteristic feature of the sedan. Rather than being welded to the exterior, the interior has been wired to the copper skeleton, which makes it interchangeable rather easily, like home furniture.

Designer : Slavche Tanevski

This magnificent connection system offers better comfort and enables a sense of flying for the passengers. Giving a feeling of freedom is the cabin’s airy ambience. The choice of materials also adds to the beauty of the sedan. Copper and aluminum is used to express strength, whereas leather as well as piano black surfaces are epitome of high class and exclusivity. On the whole, this innovative design concept is deserves much appreciation.

Aqua is a Chinese off-road based vehicle. It has an imminent approach of futuristic means of transportation powered by hydrogen and driven by impeller. It functions with several engines and the major one drives the fan and is accountable for elating the vehicle by giving high pressure air below the craft. This blow up the “skirt” in the vehicle and thus it rises above the surface. This product reads the idea of Volkswagen Design without any change and short appearance. The door is on the back and this product has no pollutant emissions.

Designer : Yuhan Zhang

 Counting cash manually can be slow and inaccurate at times. Although cash counting machines serve their purpose, individuals would rarely have access to such counting machines. To help people count cash rather quickly, a new concept named Counting Ring has been unveiled. It is a small ring that helps individuals count cash rapidly and precisely by hand by making use of infrared scanning. It features 4 main components including an LED display with a power switch, an infrared scanner, sheet-separating veins together with a battery slot. Counting ring is put on the thumb, which is then used to flip the currency notes.

The LED display acts as a power switch when pressed, showing the number of notes being flipped. The veins are set in such a way that it shows the accurate number of notes being flipped by the ring. Hidden onto the side of the ring is the battery slot that houses a button-shaped battery. The counting ring offers ease in handling and is cheap and portable as well. This greatly increases effectiveness and litheness in currency transactions. 

Designers : Wei Hansen, Li Shaochen, Xu Jinrui, Qi Yibin, and Zhao Ying 

Rolltop is a portable computer development concept for designer, architect and everyone,
who would like to have a gadget, which, from an aesthetic standpoint alone, certainly hits the mark.  By virtue of the OLED-Display technology and a multitouchscreen the utility of a laptop computer with its weight of a mini-notebook and screen size of 13 inch easily transforms into the graphics tablet, which with its 17-inch flat screen can be also used as a primary monitor due to the support attached to the back of the screen.

It’s more than just a cool looking watch with Tron blue lights, the Rollerphone by  takes us to the very near future where you can pull your phones navigation out of your wristband via a retractable transparent screen. This futuristic cellphone concept seems to blend the concepts of these two films together.  A watch and cellphone hybrid,  Rollerphone acts like a mini projector on the wearer’s wrist. This projection shows the time on one side of the wrist and when the wearer turns it over, a roll out, transparent screen

What we have here is the Biz Cafe – a concept targeted towards the jet-set workaholics who need gadget ready environments even while relaxing with a cup of coffee. Think about it, most restaurants and glitzy places in town have access to our social profile and instantly ping the world with a status update! So yes, in the future we will need a semi-office environment, even in cafes, so that we don’t lose out on work!