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If you’re looking to explore the world on the cheap but the thought of sharing a hostel room with strangers creeps you out, designers Roberto De Luca and Antonio Scarponi have got you covered. The pair’s Hotello is a rolling trunk that transforms into a 43 square foot hotel room complete with a bed, a desk, a lamp, a shelf, a locker, and even a privacy curtain. More »

The Seoul Motor Show is coming up next week, and there will obviously be a handful of new cars to be unveiled on the show floor during the week, one of which will be Hyundai‘s HND-9 coupe concept. It’s said that the design of the concept will be meant as inspiration for Hyundai’s upcoming vehicles — possibly a next-generation Genesis.

Hyundai says that this design of the HND-9 is described as a “modern reinterpretation of the classic premium sports coupe,” and we’d have to agree with them. The concept has the classic Lambo-style doors, as well as the fastback-esque rear design, with the dual exhaust on the back, along with the mean-looking taillights.

The concept that will be making an appearance at the Seoul Motor Show will sport a 3.3-liter turbocharged V6 GDI engine that spits out 365 BHP, and it’ll be accompanied by an eight-speed automatic transmission. Of course, this may not be the exact setup that will come to production vehicles in the future, but it could be template.

We’ve already seen a couple of Hyundai’s concepts over the last few months. The company showed off their HCD-14 sedan concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit back in January, as well as their Veloster C3 hatchback concept back in November, both of which look really sleek.

[via Autocar]

Hyundai to reveal HND-9 concept at Seoul Motor Show is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Remote controls haven’t been revolutionized the way smartphones and tablets have. Perhaps it is high time that they’re taken care of. The Loupe next-generation TV remote is an interesting new concept which shows us with the future should be for remotes. The design is beautiful and sleek, it looks wonderful. The idea behind this concept is that the remote should let the user control all aspects of entertainment through a touchscreen that can be customized. The allows the user to search guides, manage and access content straight from the 1136×640 resolution Gorilla glass display.

The Loupe remote concept details a lengthy list of specifications. These include an 8 megapixel autofocus camera with five element lens and touch to focus, full 1080p HD video recording and the ability to take still photos while recording. Voice recognition will ensure a hands-off experience, so users can have control over their entertainment without having to take their hands off the nachos. The concept is good, despite being heavy on the features. Though some of these features might sound a bit far fetched to have on a remote, it is interesting to see various ideas about how we can make remote controls in the not so distant future.

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Phone and tablet keyboards are humongous, relative to the screens they live on, and admittedly adhere to an antiquated typewriter metaphor. Minuum is a new way to think about how to make a digital keyboard—tiny and forgiving, mostly—but also highlights just how damn hard it is to come up with something better. More »

[CeBIT 2013] Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) was demoing an interesting mobile technology at CeBIT and Alexandra Dmitrienko, Research Assistant on the project, showed me a demo (check out the video). Key2Share is a token-based and NFC-based access control system for smartphones. A NFC-enabled smartphone user can be granted access rights or to delegate such rights to other smartphone users.

The access rights are transferred using QR codes sent via email or MMS, or even printed out. Additionally, users get a login/password to activate the code.  According to Fraunhofer SIT, Key2Share technology take advantage of resource efficient cryptographic protocols that addresses the bandwidth constraint of the NFC standard.
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