Not every VR game involves battle or fighting. Some titles, like I Expect You to Die or Fantastic Contraption, are more fun puzzles than violent shoot-em-ups. At the Oculus Connect event last week, I played around with Luna, a game that's more remini...
The modern lifestyle’s really been a blessing and curse to our sleeping patterns. I say curse, because we now sleep at erratic times, don’t get fitful sleep, and let’s not even get into the radiation we’re exposed to because of our smartphones. I also say blessing because with the modern lifestyle came technology, which brought us Luna!
Now Luna’s not just an alarm clock. She (let’s just humanize her a bit) comes with quite a character. She loves it when you sleep and wake up on time. She also loses it when you disobey her, turning red and literally screaming at you when you don’t cooperate! Luna comes with a tiny wrist-strapped vibrating capsule that’ll provide you with an actual tactile alarm along with the sound. Luna’s also clever enough to accept two different alarms for two different people and optimize them so that the person with the earlier alarm doesn’t wake up the person who wants to be woken up later. Cool, innit?! To top things off, Luna comes with Constellation, its set of ambient smart-lights that you can scatter around the house. How does it work? Constellation illuminates with a faint but visible glow whenever you’re around. Perfect for when you’ve woken up mid-sleep to check on something, or to empty the tank if you get what I mean! PIR sensors know when you’re around, switching on and off only when you enter and exit the room, making it perfect because you don’t have to fumble for the lights in the dark, and then be woken up by the brightness of those very lights! Quite the conventional alarm-clock killer, this Luna!
You may have heard of the name Crazybaby. They’re the guys behind Mars, a high fidelity speaker, that levitates. After that absolute biggie, the crazy audio nerds are back with Luna Eye, a spherical speaker with quite some street cred. Not only does it pack a punch in the sound department, it also can be paired with more of its kind to create a network of audio devices that can stream from a single source. It also can WiFi pair outdoors, which is great because it has its own WiFi network and doesn’t rely on your home WiFi.
The Luna Eye gets its name from the eye shaped element in the centre. The ‘eye’ is actually a tweeter, or secondary speaker, that is used for notification sounds, so your audio doesn’t get interrupted. Around this secondary speaker is a ring of light that complements the tweeter to give you visual feedback. The coolest part however, is the fact that the secondary speaker moves back and forth to tell you if your device is successfully connected to it. Now isn’t that way too cool?!
Strip a phone down of all its additional fluff and you’re left with a phone’s bare essentials. A display, and a control panel. That’s all you need, actually. You’ll be surprised how easy it would be to get a hang of things.
The Luna Phone would make a really good burner phone. With its unusually pretty screen and the simple capacitive touch panel at the bottom, it truly takes minimalist design to another level. The absence of a camera and a high definition LCD really allows the phone to become super slim. The touch-pad is pretty intuitive but would take a bit of getting used to, after the widespread use of smartphones with more definitive displays.
Designed to look classy even with its basic, lower-end hardware, this could be your perfect backup phone. Not to mention, the battery backup on this would run for weeks, given its minimal build. Now who wouldn’t want that!
The smartwatch companies are facing quite a hard time in trying to convince their customers that they are different from others on the market but this is no easy job. From all that we have seen so...
The smartwatch companies are facing quite a hard time in trying to convince their customers that they are different from others on the market but this is no easy job. From all that we have seen so...
Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson are not a couple anymore and Uma has now filed for a court order to seek custody of her two year old daughter Luna. Arpad was Uma’s fiancé and she hopes that they both...
The future of washing clothes foresees us putting the washing machine between the dirty clothes and not the other way around. Interestingly, the Luna is an electrostatic spherical washing machine where the metallic sphere loads a little dose of water and is placed into the pile of dirty clothes. It then creates a cloud of fine particles of steam electrostatically charged. The steam oozes out through pores of the metal surface, wrapping and pervading all the fibers of the clothes.
This is how it works:
Luna flows between clothes through vibrations and pulses that control their movements, to scrub and shake tissues, detect dirt foci and detach it.
The metallic surface of the sphere acts as a magnet: electrostatically charged, attracts dirt particles impregnated with steam and sucks these towards the core of the sphere.
Finally, Luna dries with hot air the residual damp in the tissues.
Luna is 2014 Electrolux Design Lab Top 100 entry, you can vote for this or any other entry here. Voting closes on May 16, 2014.
Designer: Juan Camilo Restrepo Villamizar
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The Luna Watch is a clever design that represents the process of waxing and waning of the real moon as a way of communicating the time. What this means is that Waning to the right indicates ‘AM’ and waning to the left means ‘PM’. You can recharge the watch via USB and access the functions menu by adjusting the crown. In all, designer ilmo Ahn wants you to own your moon.
Designer: ilmo Ahn
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What you see in the shot above (and the gallery below) is a display containing almost every Lumia handset and accessory currently manufactured by Nokia -- all arranged buffet-style for your viewing pleasure. These photos, captured during a special event at MWC 2013, include the Lumia 920, 820, 720, 620 and 520, PlayUp speaker, Purity HD stereo headset and Luna Bluetooth headset (among others).
Not every VR game involves battle or fighting. Some titles, like I Expect You to Die or Fantastic Contraption, are more fun puzzles than violent shoot-em-ups. At the Oculus Connect event last week, I played around with Luna, a game that's more remini...
