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Awesome Concepts

Fukushima Plate Concept

Fukushima Plate Concept

With concerns about the fallout from Japan’s recent disaster affecting food supplies, Nils Ferber created this concept combining dinner plate with radiation meter. Whimsical, but well-intentioned.

Bento Book Convertible Laptop

Bento Book Convertible Laptop

If you’re like us, you’ve probably got a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone. René Woo-Ram Lee’s Bento Book concept lets you combine all three into a single gadget, then still use them individually.

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Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner

Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner

Hyun-Seok Kim’s Puppy Robotic is a vacuum cleaner consisting of a mommy dog and her litte, who even have digital faces. The mom acts as the base unit and the four pups are her cleanup crew.

The Tablet Newspaper

The Tablet Newspaper

It’s easy to dismiss concepts and visions of the future as impossible, but as this extremely prescient video from 1994 shows, some people really do have a firm grasp of what’s to come.

Rejected Star Wars Products

Rejected Star Wars Products

Back in the day, product designer Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and his co-workers had the opportunity to pitch over 100 Star Wars collectible concepts for Pepsi. We think they should have ALL been made.

Michelin Straddle Concept

Michelin Straddle Concept

Attila Tari and hypo-Design’s entry in the Michelin Challenge Design, the Straddle is an electric version of a horse, meant to bring the rider closer to his surroundings and to nature in general.

Leica i9 Concept

Leica i9 Concept

Black Design Associates combined the connectivity and usability of the iPhone 4 with the timeless design and quality of the Leica M9 to create an affordable high quality and high tech camera.

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Remembrance Coffee Table

Remembrance Coffee Table

Designed by Mitch Steinmetz, the Remembrance concept is an elegant combination of a photo album and a coffee table, one where people can create new memories while preserving the old ones.

Audi A3 e-tron Concept

Audi A3 e-tron Concept

The Audi A3 e-tron variant offers a turbo, direct-injected 1.4L 4 cylinder with 211 hp; combined with the 27 ponies from the 20kW electric motor, the vehicle goes 0 to 60 in 6.8 seconds. Video here.

Electrolux ReSource Concepts

Electrolux ReSource Concepts

Conceptual kitchen appliances made by Students of the Domus Academy for Electrolux, including a holographic cookbook, a trash receptacle that converts waste to energy, and a modular kitchen.

Switch Hooks Concept

Switch Hooks Concept

Like many people, the first thing Andy Lee touches as soon as he enters his place is the light switch. So he came up with a light switch plate with hooks for keys and other important items.

WVIL Concept Camera

WVIL Concept Camera

Artefact’s, WVIL is a high-end camera with smartphone functionality. Its patent pending design also allows the camera’s lens and body to work even if they’re not attached to each other.

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GOAB: TV Experience Concept

GOAB: TV Experience Concept

Syzygy Labs imagines a universal app that will augment the TV, so users can get info related to what they’re watching, see what their friends are watching or even buy advertised products instantly.

m • pad Tablet PC Concept

m • pad Tablet PC Concept

Volker Hübner’s tablet is optimized for designers and artists. With a 15.6″ OLED screen, pressure-sensitive stylus, programmable buttons and scroll wheel, it’s like a Cintiq with a computer built-in.

Mercedes-Benz A-Class Concept

Mercedes-Benz A-Class Concept

The athletic, front-wheel drive Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class features a new turbocharged 4 cylinder gasoline engine, dual clutch transmission and radar-based collision warning system.

Retro F1-inspired BMW Concept

Retro F1-inspired BMW Concept

Artist Andreas Fougner decided to take the front-engined, open-wheel design of ’50s F1 cars and modernize the language for a new passenger car by using a BMW Z4 body; thumbs up to the results.

Kinected Conference

Kinected Conference

Members of the MIT Media Lab used Microsoft’s Kinect to come up with interactive teleconferencing. Features include a talk time timer, auto focus on speaker and use of augmented reality objects.

Break Soap

Break Soap

This concept lets you break off tiny slivers of soap so you can wash your hands without ever defiling a shared block of soap with your germs. You could just use pump soap, but this looks way cooler.

Edible Pen Concept

Edible Pen Concept

Like many people, Dave Hakkens has a habit of chewing on his pen. He eventually found a type of candy that doesn’t stick or melt easily and used it to create his edible pen, which also uses edible ink.

Pulse Urban Bike Concept

Pulse Urban Bike Concept

Created by Dana Krieger for Seattle’s TEAGUE, this urban bike concept would offer integral LED electric turn signals in the handlebars, a red brake light and TRON-like electroluminescent frame lighting.

Toyota FT-86 II

Toyota FT-86 II

Toyota has been working on their aggressive rear-wheel-drive sports concept for several years now, but these studio pics look like the real deal. Expect the FT-86 II to go into production in 2012.

Free Form Ruler

Free Form Ruler

This concept writing instrument from Monocomplex measures the distance between two points by drawing a line – straight or curved, the distance would display on an embedded LED display.

The Bellows March

The Bellows March

Using a zoetrope, 3D software and a 3D printer, Eric Dyer tells a mesmerizing story about the cycle of creation and destruction in his loopy, candy-like short film The Bellows March. (Thanks Hillary!)

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