Yes, it’s true, the iPhone is a charming gadget, but it doesn’t do any good to visually impaired users. Thankfully, Bruno Fosi designed a Silicon Touch iPhone case that works with a special app and delivers all the functions needed for people with visual impairments. Text to speech and moon type tactile feedback are there and the case comes with bas-relief keys associated with the iPhone’s Home screen. You won’t believe it, but there’s also multi-touch support and scrolling for the visually impaired. Great idea!
Truth be told, we love the MacBook, as for the iPhone… well it’s a decent phone after all, but is there something in between them? I mean a non-laptop, non-phone device? Shrink the MacBook, give it an iPhone-style design and you’ve got an “iNetbook”. Can you feel the fear, Eee PC
This mockup, concept or whatever you want to call it started out as a hint, right from the mouth of Steve Jobs, who talked about the netbook market and claimed that Apple has “some pretty interesting ideas if it does evolve”. Should we expect to see a touch tablet, an UMPC or a netbook
Petitinvention once again introduces a superb concept phone and, as far as I know, the creative genius behind this is an Apple fan, so my lucky guess (based on the device’s look) is that we might be dealing with a so-called Mac Phone. The designer of the device compares it to Nokia Aeon, but I think this is better and more original.
Notice the fancy keyboard (QWERTY and numeric), the brilliant touchscreen and the “Mac white” displayed by the device? Practically, the handset has no borders, so we’re talking full touchscreen, in an original way. If you ask me about the OS of thisconcept, I might say Android, but I don’t think that Google’s software is worthy enough to be emulated on this beauty…
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14/03/2010 02:54
This is the next logical step of evolution, the touchscreen-isation of every device (I invented a verb folks). As a proof of the trend of implementing touch-based displays on new devices, we have the MacBook Touch concept, designed by Petitinvention.
Imagine a lighter MacBook Air, with a virtual keyboard instead of the physical one… The use of two touchscreens makes the need of a mouse futile, now that we can use our fingers to navigate, click, zoom and select. Another plus is the fact that the virtual keys will always be lit, so you’ll be able to work even when the sun sets.
The nostalgic users will miss the sound and feel of pressing a button on their keyboard, but that can be easily solved with the aid of haptic technology and vibration feedback.
Next step? An even lighter and slimmer MacBook, with a single touchscreen and a small laser projector that displays a virtual keyboard on a flat surface.
Before starting the hunt for a new iPhone concept, we stop and check out a neat customization of the famous device. This modding allows the Apple symbol to glow and it was done in Russia, but hopefully it will hit the rest of the world soon.
Now we can only wait for a director’s cut of Lord of the Rings, where Frodo uses this light to find his way to Mordor (video of the mod in action below):
