When it comes to menus, there aren’t exactly a lot of restaurants out there that provides their menu in braille for the visually impaired. While it is possible for the person’s date or the server to read the menu out, it might not be so practical at times. That being said, designers Liu Jie, Wen Ho & Liu Dongming have come up with a concept braille menu called the Odor Menu which features an EAP (Electric Active Plastic) screen that changes with different items in the menu and will be displayed in braille. While that concept alone is a pretty good one, here’s the kicker – the Odor Menu will also have the ability to release a smell of the dish that they are considering. For example if you wanted to order the macaroni and cheese, it will be able to release an odor of the dish to give you an idea of what to expect. We’re not sure how they plan to incorporate an entire menu’s worth of smells into the tiny device, but it certainly is pretty novel! While it seems to have been designed for the visually impaired in mind, we expect that its novelty can also be appreciated by others as well. What do you think?
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Watches can be a defining piece of fashion, especially if you know how to pair a particular watch style with a particular look. While concept watches might not necessarily be designed in your typical watch fashion, they are pretty interesting to look at and probably appeal to those with more eclectic fashion sense. That being said, Peter from the UK submitted a watch design recently to the folks at Tokyo Flash which he has dubbed “Subway”. As you can see pictured in the rendering above, the way the watch has been laid out is pretty similar to the sort of layout you can expect while studying a map of the subway system in any country.
There is nothing quite like the feeling of relaxing all those tired muscles after a particularly long and hard day at work, and in the perfect world, it would be a slew of lovely ladies rubbing down the neighborhood don, while he smokes on a cigar in one hand (lighted using nothing but $100 bills, no less) and a bottle of champagne nearby to savor the day’s takings on the streets. Well, not everyone is able to live out such a life, but that does not mean you should deprive yourself of a massage, right?
We think it’s safe to say that everyone loves waffles – I know I do, but instead of the regular waffle pattern, how about classing it up a bit? If you’re wondering what we meant by that, then the photo above should already clue you guys in! Yup, pictured above is none other than a waffle maker that comes with the monogram imprints that are famous to the Louis Vuitton fashion brand. Now if you’re wondering why on earth would Louis Vuitton make a waffle maker of all things, don’t worry as your favorite fashion brand has not lost it. This is in fact a concept design by 
Now here is a conceptual mouse that you might want to look into – assuming someone out there finds it worth their time and money to introduce the Arc Mouse into the world, that is. After all, most modern day notebooks come with a sorry excuse of a travel mouse, being far too small that your hand would most probably cramp up after a short while of use. As for trackpad navigation, it is far too cumbersome and sluggish compared to a nicely fitted mouse, although I do know of Apple MacBook users who claim that they are equally as productive on the trackpad as with a mouse.
The Roskva electric motorcycle is the brainchild of five engineering students from the University of Life Sciences in Oslo. The team wanted to a develop a bike that will feature a lightweight carbon fiber monocoque frame for its chassis. The electric motorcycle’s wheels, single-sided swingarm, and drive-shaft were also made from carbon fiber to preserve its lightweight design. For the battery, the team chose to use lithium iron phosphate due its stability and a useful power/weight ratio. The batteries will power two D135RAGS electric motors that delivers 80 Nm (59 ft lbs) of torque and peak power of 96.6 horsepower.
There is nothing quite like a concept for you to let your imagination run wild, right? After all, you need not be bogged down by details such as physical limitations or a shorter battery life due to the number of features you threw into the mix. Well, here is a rendering of a concept phone by someone who figured out that RIM might actually want to consider when it comes to churning out a BlackBerry 10 QWERTY slider. The whole idea of this concept is to maximize the display area. When the concept phone is closed, the bezel looks extremely narrow, although it does not really break new ground in terms of hardware design.