Thursday, August 21, 2008

Coach’s Clipboard

the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, the oldest trade group that keeps the world up to date with the latest news in the industry, fantasy sports active participants number reached 19.4 million in Canada and US, from which 2 million are teenagers, but there are 34.5 million people who have played fantasy sports at least one period of their life.
So if you are one of those fantasy sports fanatics you would surely be interested in the Coach's Clipboard PC concept.
This portable device has the right software installed, the right hardware and design features for your passion, keeping you up o date with the latest sports news world and leagues rules.
You receive accurate data regarding analysis, stats and highlights, with the possibility to keep records of all past and present performances of your fantasy sports leagues in multiple languages, so you don’t need to login to individual web sites anymore in order to find the news about each league.
Using the Wi-Fi technology, you can chat with friends all day long while watching Sports Center on TV, and share specific information from anywhere, because the Coach's Clipboard is ultra portable, slim, lightweight, and easy to carry in your pocket.
Its handheld unit measures 3.65 x 2 x 0.33 inches, while the base, which is also the charger, is of 6.5 x 6.5 x 1.06 inches, and the whole device’s design is similar with the classic coaching clipboards used in side lines of football, basketball and baseball, with the playing field as layout.
This image can be used by the coach to make plays diagrams during practices and timeouts, right from his/her sofa, as well as review picks from previous years, study competitions and save draft plans on its 80GB HDD space.
More than that, you as the coach can receive instant updates, make trade offers, chat to opponents, check stats and total points accumulated, switch between leagues and much much more, all these by using the 3.5-inch multi-touch-sensitive display with 480 x 320 pixels resolution, or an attachable ergonomic keyboard with mouse.
Coach's Clipboard’s designers imagine it made of recyclable materials, easy to disassembly, like mobile phones or portable music players.
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f@n PC Concept

Based on the flexible, multiple-screen computer concept, the f@n looks like a folding fan with each of the four displays capable of performing a specific task simultaneously.

It is not very futuristic as the Everyone’s Computer and you could choose which task to assign to which screen.
Measuring 6 x 15 x 2.5 cm in its normal shape, it would be a great ultra mobile PC for people who have to travel often and need to work via the Internet on the go.
An example of use would be when you chat with friends on one screen, while editing a document on another screen, downloading some music with the third, and listening to a music playlist using the fourth one.
The displays can be rotated at 360 degrees, are touch-sensitive, but the user can add a keyboard if the one provided by the screen is not large enough, and a mouse, depending on what he/she is used with.
And what is fascinating is that you can do these with the screens placed on a desk, sofa or wherever you like, as they are connected to the mainframe wirelessly.
Also, if you are traveling by car, you might need to use one of the screens for GPS functionality, or when you are at a friend’s place it would be cool to give a screen to each of the people present and play a funny game together in multi-player mode.

Its designer thought in using power-efficient elements like the solar cell battery, lightweight materials and modularization, so if one component is broken, it can be easily replaced without affecting the other ones.
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INFO Live

INFO Live is not a complex PC concept but a very simple one, compared to the other NextGen PC Design Competition participants, and it adopts the easy wearable design idea, a bracelet.

Created as a personal portable storage device easy to browse, INFO Live can perform various tasks combining a mobile handset with personal computer functionality.
You could use it for Internet connectivity, data transfer with other wireless-enabled devices, store lots of information, receive the latest news, e-mails, messages, documents in real-time, watch videos, pictures , listen to the music and write documents while on the go.
It is like a watch so it sports a small display, meaning you’d probably have to connect it to a larger screen or use a projector while working.
The users would access INFO Live via a super easy to use and intuitive interface to manage their data as they like, where they like, using natural gestures such as flipping and finger kicking.
Measuring 55 x 20 x 180 mm, the watch computer would be used mainly by business people that need to travel frequently, and that’s why it should be conceived to be compact, smart, colored in classic black, with the ability to give you a tactile feel while touching it.
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