Samsung SS 700 Concept Integrates Camera with Digital Frame

A digital picture frame that’s also a camera. Or, a camera that’s also a digital picture frame. Either way, Samsung’s concept SS 700 is interesting, but I do have one question: isn’t a digital picture frame supposed to be, you know, stationary? And, a camera, you know, portable? Okay, maybe I’m being a luddite here, [...]

Speaker/Lamp Hybrid Confuses Model - and the Rest of Us

See the look on the model’s face? That’s either confusion, or someone’s making a rude gesture just off-picture. I’d be confused, too, though, at Sony’s "Hana" speaker/lamp/MP3 combo concept thing. It’s an MP3 player that supplies the tunes and pumps them out loud, all the while providing some nice (soft?) LED lighting to keep the [...]

Future Transportation

Saint Peters, Missouri-based 3D artist Mike Doscher is an innovative designer. I know Nerdgrind is about gadgets and tech, but this 3D rendering of a futuristic cablecar is awesome.

His Wirebus Concept is an answer to what we might be cruising about in if cablecars were the most popular way to get from A to [...]

Ford Hopes to Hit 200MPH With Fuel Cell Fusion

Talk about a proof of concept. Ford hopes to break the land speed record for hydrogen-powered fuel cell autos with its Fusion 999. It’s not a practical model, being cooled with what I’m guessing is rather impractical technology, but Ford’s hoping this baby will hit 200MPH. Makes me a lot more willing to consider giving [...]

Musipen MP3 Player

Apparently, there are a large number of iPod and iPod-esque contraptions and people are getting (or already were) sick of them. Chris Williams attempted to counteract this problem and created the Musipen. Its most noticeable feature is the cylindrical shape and lack of any scroll buttons. Volume and music selection is selected by turning the [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Unicycle!

All you Harry Potter fans beware, there is a unicycle made just for you! It’s called the Nimbus Ultimate Wheel and is probably the most minimalistic approach to transportation as you can get. It does away with the seat and other frivolities on a standard unicycle and is basically just a wheel with [...]

Curvy and Luscious

With the new iphone and other phone companies are jumping on the bandwagon with "new" gadgets in lieu of the "i"phenomenon, I felt that the typical household phone needed some much needed improvement. So, I was searching around and, viola! Panasonic came out with a sexy, curvy and chic concept phone. I thought it [...]

Breath Saver?

This is kind of weird to say the least. It’s called the BreathCatcher. Basically, it is a test tube that captures the breath of a loved one, a dog, cat, or yourself so you can smell it later. Why you would want to smell old rancid breath is beyond me, but hey it’s a gadget [...]

Portable Light?

A lamp you can take with you? That used to be called a flashlight, but designer Dorata Kulawuk’s Nomadic Lamp goes way beyond portable — the light rings are perfectly suited to be carried, worn as a bracelet, or plunked on a table. The two brightness settings let you use it as either a mood [...]

MiniPC SA800 - The Future of PC’s?

I sure hope so. Modular PC’s make perfect sense. Start with a core module that provides the basic guts of the machine–in this case, a Core 2 Duo T7600, 2GB of fast RAM, a hard drive, and embedded graphics–then add components as needed. It’s worked for A/V equipment for decades now. Eventually, a standard will [...]