Gadget Savvy

SLEEPBOX
Area: 3.75 m2
architects: Goryainov A., Krymov M.
Design: 2009

Imagine the situation that you are in the modern metropolis, where you are not a local resident, and you have not booked a hotel. It is not comfortable situation, because in the modern, aggressive cities there are no opportunity to rest and relax.

If you want to sleep, while waiting your plane or train, it may cause many security and hygiene problems. We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable for people. For this purpose we have developed a device SLEEPBOX. 

After a long day at work it’s always nice to get a massage.

The Panasonic Portable Neck Massager comes in bright green, grey and pink, so even though it may not match your suit, it’ll sure as hell alleviate some stress in the neck area.

It only requires a pair of CR2032 batteries to keep it going, but the bad news is that it’s part of Panasonic’s Japanese division, meaning it’s not available anywhere else. However, there is a chance that it’ll make its way into other markets, so there is hope.

No matter what people say, the James Bond style gadgets always inspire people and always attract people to have those remote controlled real cars, wrist watch mobile phones and what not.

Imagine a Flashlight that can not only guide you in the dark but can also guide you in the right direction.

Tamtam flash takes its user by the hand and on a playful discovery tour, just like a local that shows him around, but pocked-sized and always there. tamtam flash resembles a flash light, it lights its user the way and helps him feel secure in a foreign environment.

But instead of lighting the dark with a cone of light, it projects navigation information on the user’s path and thus generates an immediate, intuitive way of navigation. In case the user gets lost, he can project a usual map on any surface. This map is zoomable and scrollable like any digital map.

Nokia today announced Nokia 5235, a music oriented mobile device that looks similar to Nokia 5230 Xpress music in design and other technical specifications. Nokia 5235 is not a part of Nokia’s popular Xpress music lineup. But it’s definitely a device built for the music enthusiasts. Nokia 5235 is based on Symbian S60 V5 touch enabled user interface that power all recent Nokia phones. This device is deigned to sell at entry level touch screen segment with 3G. Like Nokia 5230, it includes a 2 mega pixel camera that comes with exciting 30 fps video recording. The difference in Nokia 5235 is the option to download unlimited songs using Nokia music service for a period of one year. There will a catalog of DRM protected music files that users can download as per requirement.

When I bought my Palm Pre, I showed it to my dad and he was very much confused with the whole Gesture stuff and going through all those touch interfaces to turn on the simple alarm clock. All these new smart technologies are actually not helping to senior citizens.

Grandpa, Grandmas can not keep up with the new technologies. So Emporia Phones are making their life easier.