Steel Drake’s Backpack Design Feels Like 2050

We have nothing but love for Steel Drake’s visions. Whether it’s the edgy cars he designs, or the modern gadgets he conceptualizes, there’s always a strong undertone of futurism we’ve grown to really love and look forward to.

Bringing his brand of innovation to the industry of fashion, Drake wants to shake things up with the Keeback. A backpack that is literally like nothing anyone’s seen before. Designed completely from scratch, Steel Drake’s Keeback feels like a backpack designed by someone who doesn’t know what traditional backpacks look like. Retaining every aspect of functionality you’d expect from a carry-case you wear on your back, the Keeback literally looks like something from a futuristic movie, because it comes in a hard-shell design, sports USB ports galore, and has a vertical screen that can be customized to display text, graphics, or a gradient that is sure to grab eyes.

Looking like a backpack quite fit for a species that’s ready to colonize another planet, the Keeback is a complete deviation from traditional, and feels like concept art come to life. The outer hard-shell design gives it a defined form factor and can be swapped for different styles, ranging from solid colors, to metallic hues, to even an organic grill design that quite literally has my heart. One of the only backpacks to sport a clamshell design, the Keeback opens from the base to reveal storage inside, with dedicated slots for a 13-inch laptop, a tablet, phone, wallet, passport, as well as enough empty space for the rest of your peripherals. The backpack even comes with its own whopping 40,000 mAh battery courtesy Panasonic that can not only charge your devices via USB (the Keeback comes with an unprecedented 6 USB ports), but also powers the Keeback’s RGB LED display, as well as a revolutionary 20W speaker fitted into the Keeback’s base, giving your backpack the ability to bust out tunes on your daily commute (now isn’t that a slice of the future for you!).

The Keeback, undeniably modern, also packs a tracking sensor that acts as an anti-theft mechanism for the backpack. Weighing in at just a mere 3.7 pounds (1.7 kilos), the Keeback has quite a feature list, something that most backpacks can’t even compare to. Designed to literally be a class apart, the Keeback feels, looks, and behaves differently from any traditional backpack. Call me when you can find another backpack that has a stunning hardshell design, a screen, a 40,000 mAh built-in battery, 6 USB ports, and a literal speaker-system with a 20W output… I’ll be waiting.

Designer: Steel Drake

Click here to Buy Now: $250.00 $500.00 (50% off).

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The world’s first backpack designed as a device with a display.

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Breaking the notion that a backpack must be made of fabric, designer and engineer Steel Drake reinvented it and created a multifunctional device with features like display, speaker, USB sockets and more.

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Main Features Below

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Click here to Buy Now: $250.00 $500.00 (50% off).

The Biggest Baddest iPhone Yet?

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As much as I love paying 1000s of dollars in glass repair over the years (who doesn’t?), I, like many an Apple fanboy, have hoped to see a swing back to the metal back of yesteryear. Steel Drake’s proposal for the next-gen iPhone, dubbed the iPhone IQ, not only implements the robust frame and body we’ve been missing, but its shape is ergonomically adapted for the palm and harkens back to the comfortable, bubbly rear side of the original. Other features include a truly borderless display, invisible camera/sensors that live beneath the display, and a bigger overall size. Would you be down for an all-new iPhone direction (maybe one that didn’t require a case)? Let us know in the comments!

Designer: Steel Drake

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The Talking Tesla

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Cars evolved in a way that the front of the car started taking on face-like qualities. The headlights were the eyes, and the radiator grill was the mouth. The shapes of these determined the expression of the car and allowed them to fit into various categories. Smiling automobiles would become family cars, while aggressive or serious-faced cars would go on to become sports-cars or luxury sedans. So when Tesla decided that their model S would no longer contain a discernible radiator grill, it felt a lot like the car lost its mouth.

In order to return anthropomorphic qualities to the car, designer Steel Drake redesigned the Model S. The new concept, called the Model SD, features a rather different looking front detail. Between the two headlights, around a tiny triangular (Alfa Romero-ish) radiator grill lies the car’s new mouth. Taking inspiration from grill designs and marrying it with illumination, the car’s front features an interactive inverted-mustache panel of lights that give the car its face-like quality again while also bringing something innovative to the table. The detail (we’ll call it the mouth) lights up on ignition, almost looking like an air-flow pattern. It even changes color, based on your driving mode and it’s difficult to say if it would serve as an indicator too, but I’d be rather impressed if it did… because that would literally mean the car’s ‘mouth’ could communicate!

Designer: Steel Drake

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The Greek God of Smarphones

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Samsung managed to bring the Curved touchscreen to the masses, but the Sony Zeus concept phone really showcases it in all its glory! In the front face, literally all you can see the display, making it look like some sort of magic. Integrated into the super-thin bezel on the sides, are the controls for volume and locking/unlocking. To make the phone truly screen-centric, the fingerprint reader is put at the back (y’know, Nexus style), although it seems to be a little too low, functionally.

Known for its superior cameras, Sony also gives the Zeus phone a dual camera at the back… a trend that started barely a month ago. Has your jaw dropped yet??

Designers: Steel Drake & Nurlan Kumashov.

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This Samsung G8 Concept has us Salivating

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While anticipation for the Samsung Galaxy S7 is building, designer Steel Drake is cooking up ideas for the 8! This next-gen Galaxy features all new dimensions, a new “pointier” edge, and it’s been stripped entirely of connector holes for charging or PC syncing. In an effort to go almost entirely wireless, it relies solely on inductive charging and cordless connectivity. All that and a spiffy new logo to match the new look. So what’dya think? Is this the G of tomorrow?

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Designer: Steel Drake

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If the top supercars had a baby…

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Let’s be honest… the Vensepto concept is a bit schizophrenic. WHAT is it? Well, right now, just a name. One look, however, and you’ll see that it was inspired by many brands (like Lambo) as well as different auto designers such as Ken Nagasaka, Tony Chen and others. The result is Ferrari-esque, Gallardo-ish, McLaren-y and maybe even a little LFA-like. But what’s in a name when it looks this good?!

Designer: Steel Drake

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