How do you want the world to be in the digital era? Design concepts ride on the craziest of ideas when it comes to designing gadgets. And, these gadgets are most likely to populate the world so digitally enhanced. Do you have any clue on what would your world be like in the era we re talking about? Hard to comprehend, you thought? Impossible has turned nothing, as the oft heard jingle goes. Many an innovation has been pushing the limits of imagination, and many more are to come. In case you would like to know what it would be like a few decades from now, or may be even earlier, join as we stroll down the future through the bylanes where designers have showcased their wish list for the days to come.

D-Scribe Digital Pen

Designer : Reuben Png

Texting or mail may not be just about punching those QWERTYs anymore. D-Scribe, the digital fountain pen concept, has all in it to enable you to send text and e-mail messages from any surface like paper. Just jot down what you want to convey by the keyboard and circle the name of the person to send it in a more in a more expressive way of communication. Significant would be the fact that you have complete access to your message history through a computer since the device records every single word you scribble with it. Add a sketch or scribble that’s funny so that the recipient too shares a laugh.

Palette Digital Artist

Designer: ImagineCup

Art meets digitization on a more special that ever. What’s so unique, you might ask. The design concept of a palette-digital has in it the potential to give a new standard in digital painting. This could also mean that you can fully do away with all the gadgets you until now have been using to get a digital painting done. Interestingly enough, this new fancy takes flight as a normal canvas and palette. You can even touch and feel the canvas, the way you used to with a traditional one. Designed to have connectivity with other devices such main PC system, main monitor or other wireless peripherals, the Palette would come about as a hardware system design with all ammunition in store for the digital artist. You will be able to bring in connectivity between the Palette and PC and other devices via a wireless network. The Palette also would boast of a user interface which deploys photo-optic visual sensor with color recognition.

Dump the mouse and keyboard, and touch, draw and paint as you once used to when you wanted to sketch what was in mind. Feel and touch the digital canvas and palette the same way as you use ordinary canvas and palette. The welcome difference in the new age would be that whatever you draw on the canvas would automatically reflect and sync with your PC that is wirelessly connected. This is one concept that might look as if all designers could have as part of their wish list, owning to the fact that conservative ways are fast getting blended with digital-modern tools. This breathes life too!

Macbook Touch

Designer: Tommaso Gecchelin

Look at the MacBook Touch of the future. Have you ever imagined what would it be like if Apple were to go small? Going by the current day Apple laptops, it is obvious that flexibility has been given the miss by the devices’ unibody design. Now, think of the days ahead. Flexibility is what a consumer would look at than hard rigidness. So it would be no wonder if flexible OLED technology takes over the scene. Flexibility features could come to be accepted as they can provide rich color and resolution density needed for a smaller screen without being a power hog and resists damage by its malleable nature. The thinnest screens now are barely 8mm thick and can fold like a piece of paper.

Designer Tommaso Gecchelin has in fact started vouching for the technology. With the core of this concept being a technology christened iSpine, it functions as the spine of a book, the technology brings in aspects that avoid excessive compression on the screen. Sounds brilliant, ain’t it?

External Touchscreen

Designer : Mac Funamizu

You are in an urgent need to type out a few paragraphs and it is really urgent indeed. And, what if you are on the go? The external touch screen is one device that could come to your aid. Easily deployable as a substitute for your keyboard especially when complicating control is needed, the external touch screen offers the options to turn it into a keyboard. It would also tell you how many new e-mails and RSS feeds you’ve got, time, schedule, new flickr photos of your bookmarked photographer. You may even pick your YouTube movies and watch them too.

Netpad – Ultimate Mobile Computer

Designer : T3

Everyone knows this one won’t take too long. The notebook NetPad, an ultimate device in its own right, has entered into an advanced design stage and might arrive soon. Being built incorporating valuable suggestions from around, the new NetPad might be one device whose main display comprises two info bar touchstrips that offers great convenience of spotting new email arrivals, changing songs and bringing up photos to the user. It would also sport a retractable, thin keypad that allows the user to keep it away when not in use. Do whatever you want to do with it, being watching movies, streaming other media or whatever. You can safely carry it wherever you want to go, as it would come with a carbon fiber lid that can keep the screen up by transforming into a stand when watching movies. It can also be detached if you would like to lay it flat.

Sci-fi Projector

Designer : Mac Funamizu

This one would make you go Wow! Basically a mobile phone concept, this futuristic device comes as if it has sailed out of those sci-fi flicks we just applauded. Cobalto, the glass screen of this mobile phone concept has been envisioned to be able to produce 3D objects in the air. The device features deformable metal which will allow the user to function either on traditional number buttons or a dial like iPod.

Rolltop Foldable Notebook

Designer : Evgeny Orkin

Roll it up after use. This is exactly one unique convenience the RollTop offers you. A flexible notebook concept that can be folded like a roll of paper, it also allows the convenience of carrying and storing it even in a congested place. It features a 17” flat-screen OLED display when fully rolled out with the multi-touch facility that will offer the ease and functionality of that of an iPhone. It can also be folded into a 13” smart tablet PC. Full fledged keyboard like conventional notebooks with which convenient typing can be performed has also been offered as part of the package. And, when you ware not using it, roll it up and swing it around your shoulder with a hanging belt. How convenient can life get?

Mozphone – Blackberry Concept

Designer : Billy May

A combination of a Blackberry 7139 and an optimus keyboard could mean the birth of a new Mozphone concept. The OLED Blackberry may be seen as a result of the constant endeavor of mobile makers to provide the best of the services to their users. The combination opens up a lot of communication channels and this concept utilizes every inch of the phone thus providing complete utilization.

Mac Tablet

Designer: Isamu Sanada via Apple-Style

The Tablet Mac Computer could be revered as the ultimate showpiece some day. Sleek, stylish and elegant, this laptop wouldn’t need a keyboard. Expected as extremely practical for business professionals, artists and technology leaders, the laptop would feature a 13.3 inch widescreen LCD that will enable one to inscribe on the screen with true pen and Handwriting recognition. When it arrives, it will boast of all essential features such as internal CD/DVD combo drive, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi capabilities and Global Positioning System. We are waiting Mac!

Ruby Rocking Chair

Designer : Pouyan Mokhtarani

A crazy idea, it might look. More than just a traditional rocking chair, the Ruby comes with water-filled cushions and would be Ruby chair is outfitted with two huge liquid pillows at the seating area that distributes the pressure of your body weight and decrease the temperature of your certain body areas. Sit n it and just pull the clutch – it starts rocking. Rocking indeed, the design is.

Light Touch

Designer : Light Touch

When you want to type, just switch on the lights. We are crazy, you thought? We mean it, in fact. What we have now is a device called the Light Touch, which comes across as an innovative projector that has the capabilities to transform any flat surface into an interactive touch screen. So you switch it on, and you will be able to just play with the content just like you do on hand-held devices using multi-touch feature. It comes spruced up with an integrated Holographic Laser Projection technology allows the projector to produce high-quality video in WVGA resolution. The functional infrared sensors can detect any sorts of motion and turns the projected image in to 10.1” touch screen that allows the user to control the projector and intermingle with applications. Further, the ultra portable device also extends the workspace of users by changing the working principle of interacting with multimedia content.

Computer Recliner Concept

Designer: Anthony Sanchez

Gamers, your attention please. Here is one special design for you and it is called a Computer Recliner. An interactive design, the Computer Recliner would allow you to explore the digital media without using conventional input devices such as mouse or keyboards. So how do you do it, you wonder? The two touch surfaces and a footrest provided can be adjusted according to your needs for longer computing comfortably. An 18 inch screen makes sure that eye strain is not a hindrance. When you switch it off, it sits on the wall like a transparent sheet. And now if you have work to be done on the PC, you can do it reclining as it is ergonomically designed. A piece of truly futuristic marvel, indeed.