Acer has announced in their “Acer’s Global press event” in New York a new Windows 7-based Iconia dual screen laptop. Yes, something similar of Toshiba’s Libretto W105, though slightly bigger this time.

The laptop will be running on Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), and is equipped with options of Intel Core i5-480M / 560M / 580M CPU, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, a pair of 14-inch multitouch displays (1366×768 resolution), integrated Intel HD graphics (128MB RAM), VGA / HDMI outputs, an inbuilt microphone and a S/PDIF interface. There’s also a 320/500/640/750GB hard drive, Acer’s CrystalEye webcam (1280×1024 resolution), 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+HS, integrated 3G WWAN, gigabit Ethernet, a four-cell battery and a total weight of 6.18 pounds. Closing things out, there is a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a single USB 3.0 jack and a one-year warranty.

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Yes, a machine is too troublesome to use, and troublesome to carry around too, if you always deal with huge pile of money when selling your warfare weapons to terrorists, or tons of firecrackers to innocent children. Or perhaps the cookies sold by your mum cost millions. Either way, you’ll have to thank Wei Hansen, as they’ve developed something very nice for you. It’s still a concept, but since you deal with so many cash daily, you may sponsor him to actually develop the real thing anyway. Read more…

I thought Hyundai only do cars, but they’ve surprised us. Hyundai IT is reportedly showing off this this 70-inch multitouch table at the Korea Electronics Show this week — in concept form, at least. While there’s no specs — apart from the fact that it’s “HD” — Hyundai is apparently saying that you’d be able to use the display either as a Surface-like multitouch table or as a TV, although it’s not clear if that means it actually tilts up. Read more…

One problem with commuting by bike is that most bikes don’t offer an easy way to carry all of your stuff. It’s no easy feat to cycle while carrying a suitcase or a bag, what’s more uphill. Business executives want somewhere to stash their important papers and a laptop, and a simple messenger bag isn’t going to do the trick. This bike provides a solution, by incorporating a fancy briefcase right into the design. Well, here comes the Bikoff! Read more…

Yet again, we have another watch that can’t tell time, directly at least. The maze-like array you see above does tell time. But, as of Tokyoflash’s culture, the point here isn’t much about knowing time itself, but more of a ‘journey of figuring it out’. Eyes made of high-quality liquid metals trained by the best ninja masters will be able to tell time from their ‘unhelpfully similar background’. The rest of us that are not trained and holified will need to push the magical button to clear away the mist that confuses you. The watch remains a concept for now, but if enough people vote in favor of its unnecessarily convoluted design, Tokyoflash might just go ahead and build a few.

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We all love to drool over crazy concept ideas that majority are absurd and impossible to be achieved in the near future, while some might only be achievable in the far future of say, fifty years’ time. Now Ikea, the famous Swedish furniture chain has an idea for our kitchen. Commissioning a report from The Future Laboratory (a London-based think tank organization), they show to us the kitchen of the future. It’s simply fabulous and crazy. How wacky? They implement the “sixth generation” iPads into the concept.

Also known as the ‘mood kitchen’, the kitchen will ‘somehow read our vibes’ and adjust lighting and music to adapt, besides providing dining and diet recommendations. The concept includes self-cleaning appliances, celebrity chefs’ projection, or should I say “hologram-ed” into your kitchen. It would be a lot cooler if it’s Sarah Kerrigan talking to me instead of some noisy celebrity chefs. Oh, there’s also 3D food printing, which I’m not really sure what that means. Origami food, anyone? Anyway, it’s a good thing to be optimistic about future concepts. If not, where do all our fancy looking toys come from? Keep up the good work guys. At least our kitchen don’t look like something from Wall-E, with obese humans flying around.

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Apps have been a core part of modern smartphone ecosystems, which you can see through the success of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. The usage and function of both platforms has grown in leaps and bounds thanks to the apps community. Since Microsoft is preparing to join in the fight for smartphone domination, surely they have to get it right for the apps community with their SDK. That’s where this concept golf scoring app from Redmond comes in, to demonstrate how it’s done, the Microsoft way.

Designed using Microsoft’s favoured Metro aesthetic, it really streamlines the user experience by employing “multiple touch targets [that] are spread out from one another” and distilling content down to large, easily readable data. Check out the videos below to get more of the idea. Pretty cool stuff. Read more…

Designer Shyam Balasubramanian has developed a multifunctional computer that allows great flexibility to enhance the experience of the user. Known as the Chip Tablet PC, this multi-use computer is designed to be used as a desktop, a laptop and tablet computer, though I can’t see how that is possible. The aim is to provide an optimum user experience by giving flexibility and compact design that will suite the user’s purpose and needs. The Chip Tablet PC concept has a removable screen that separates from PC to become a tablet for personal use. The keyboard layout is designed identically to those like a notebook, with a touchpad and no numerical pad. The display seemed to be too thick to even be called portable. The display seemed to be identical to a desktop’s design, but I doubt that with such size, you can’t actually fit ‘desktop-spec’ hardware into it. It doesn’t seem practical by my standard.

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Man, what mad imaginations petrol heads worldwide will have when they hear of this news. Surely this is one of the biggest hints for the resurrection of the legendary Toyota Supra. Last month Toyota has filed, or should I say re-filed, the US Patent and Trademark Office for the ‘Supra’ name on the 16^th of July 2010. The trademark previously expired in 2006, and yeah the company hasn’t done a fart about it till now. Unbelievable, right? Read more…

MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. Its aim is to merge the efforts of Intel on Moblin and of Nokia on Maemo into one project. It is hosted by the Linux Foundation. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor. Read more…