GM car hero concept

Combining gaming and social networking with real-life driving, General Motors has come up with a car concept dubbed "Car Hero" to attract generation Z brought up with gaming consoles, cellphones and other mobile gadgetry by their side.

Design challenge at the 2009 LA auto show, the futuristic car takes driving to the virtual world to challenge your skills. The Car Hero features easy controls, all the rider need to do is enter the destination into the navi app on his/her smartphone and let the vehicle do the rest. As soon the as the rider get dexterous, the vehicles unlocks the control so he/she could take the charge of the autonomous system. The transmorphable structure of the car challenges the driving of the rider by gradually varying from a four, to three, to a single wheeled vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle includes P2P applications, such as Friends Drive, where anyone can catch the vehicle for a digital joyride.

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Nintendo 3DS concept

3D-Technologies are advancing to go to every products, even if, portable game type Nintendo 3DS and in this year, Nintendo plan to do 3D-version of game plaything, which person play don't have to wear the spectacles in playing but can touch the experience of game has through the screen immediately !!!

Even though, have the designer to hope that game console Nintendo 3DS should have designing figure are attractive for impress, be like Nintendo 3DS concept from designing of Olivier Demangel is basically a 3D artist

Designer: Olivier Demangel





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Xbox 360 Next Generation: Xbox 720 Concept

If 360 mean a circle degree, we can’t figure out where the 720 number come from! One of the futuristic designs made for the next generation of Xbox 360 concept is the motion detecting device called “Xbox 720”

It takes the shape resembling the blend between American football and an UFO. This new “Xbox 720” concept is said to carry all the project natal features inside the device.

Always fun to explore the possibility of new design for future technological gadget. No info if a CD-Rom will be included in this device, seeing the overwhelming progress of SSD and other external hard drives as durable storage device, will the future Xbox Discs recorded in a SSD or USB3.0 or eSATA? It is still a mystery for us at this stage.

The concept design was made in color hues of classic red, green and blue and a combination of black and silver. Another question is, will Microsoft consider this shape for their future Xbox gaming device? Hard to tell, but there’s always a chance, even though the possibility only 1 percent, don’t you think so?

Designed: Tai Chiem


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