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  Razer is best known for its portfolio of gaming accessories so anything else coming out from their side is surprising. At the ongoing CES, they’re showing off their Switchblade PC concept design, which is a small PC but concentrates on gaming. The concept is based on Intel’s Atom processor running Windows 7. The Switchblade [...]

  Concepts are cool. They show us what we can expect from our future gadgets but in retrospect most of them never turn into a real product. But this concept of Mozilla Seabird is what I want to get real. It’s an open web mobile that has been created after taking feedback from the Mozilla [...]

  Concepts seldom turn into real products and this will most likely be the case with MSI’s new laptop concept. Known as Sketchbook, it was shown off in Amsterdam and is created with designers in mind, who do a lot of drawing. The Sketchbook looks like a normal laptop but the distinctiveness is its rotating [...]

  The Courier Tablet concept seemed one of the coolest products that could have come out of Microsoft’s stable but now Gizmodo is reporting that the project has been canceled. The reason behind the move is not known but MS’ Corporate VP of Communications Frank Shaw did acknowledge the demise of the yet-to-be-commercialized product. “At [...]

  In addition to the Jellow AIO concept, the other concept that attracted our attention was MSI’s dual-screen notebooks. MSI had created two dual-screen devices – one 10- and another 7-incher – both functioning as working prototypes and running Windows 7. The rep was reluctant to say the expected release but confirmed it as scheduled [...]

  Concepts are way cooler and smarter than actual products because it shows what it holds for the future. Similarly, Asus is showing off its Waveface concept behind the protected glass giving us a glimpse of future, provided Asus ever releases one. The Waveface is a series consisting of a wearable phone, a tablet PC [...]

  MSI is showing off an all-in-one PC concept at the CES. Dubbed as Jellow Family Computer, the AIO takes a different approach by integrating a storage space for keyboard. The PC display slides upwards to reveal and use the keyboard. The concept had a transparent keyboard hidden beneath it but we’re unsure if it [...]

  Freescale Semiconductor is upbeat about ARM’s launch of Snapdragon for Smartbooks and the former has teamed up with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to create some conceptual smartbooks that will also be exhibited at the Computex. Smartbooks are powered by ARM based processors which boast an all day battery life, instant-on and [...]

  So Cult of Mac received an image from their “trusted contributor” claiming to be an Apple netbook. However, it turns out to be that the purported netbook is nothing but a pencil drawn wooden model. Kyle Buckner is the mastermind of this creation which is a ¾ scale model of Macbook made out of [...]

  At the Euroluce International Lighting Fair in Milan, Philips is showing world’s first OLED lighting concepts that involves human interaction. The lights are suited for both professional as well as consumer use and feature ultra flat shape and soft light effects. Philips has created different OLED lighting concepts like standing, wall-mounted, desk-top or ceiling [...]

  Asus has got really serious in turning concepts into commercially viable products. First they did it with the Eee Keyboard and now its time for the sliding AIRO notebook. Asus CEO confirmed in an interview that the notebook is looking for a September/October release with a price hovering from $1000 to $1500. The distinctive [...]

  Lenovo’s Flickr Stream revealed the Pocket Yoga netbook concept yesterday and today we are seeing pictures of a new device. The device that looks nothing more than a concept takes a netbook-ish form factor with no keyboard, only multimedia buttons and supposedly a large trackpad below. What is it actually? A netbook sized PMP? [...]

  Now that we were really hoping to see this Lenovo shelled netbook to retail soon, Johnson Li, Director of Lenovo’s Beijing Inovation Center spills the beans that Pocket Yoga is just a concept. Yes, only a CONCEPT. He claims that Lenovo developed this concept about two years ago before the netbook and Vaio P’s [...]

  If this phone ever comes to the market, the phones providing few seconds of excitement with DJ turntables will be a thing of the past. KR8 (pronounced as create) is the brainchild of Jose Thomas DeLuna that will allow DJs to create tunes on the go. A user can create or edit tracks with [...]

  Philips Research is busy working on transparent OLEDs that can be used as glasses for windows. The transparent OLED is a concept for now which looks like a normal window when turned off but illuminates when it is turned on. Philips has prepared a 12cm prototype and claims that it could take a few [...]