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Ever sprint across the airport terminal to reach the gate and still miss the flight? Next time, skip the running and zoom through the concourse via a TITAN High-Roller Suitcase.

Still a concept, the suitcase comes with a footrest to transform into a scooter. The suitcase (with your beginnings) remain in the front. The three-wheeler uses the two wheels on the suitcase front and the single wheel  on the back footrest.

A laptop case slides off the top of the suitcase to slightly shrink the bag. When placed under the seat in front of you, the space cleared by the laptop case creates a perfect footrest.

Designed for the business types who fly regularly, the High-Roller would appeal to aynone who sees a kid fly by on a scooter, “I wish I didn’t have to walk.”

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If you think the housing market is bad, or the rental market in a city like New York is ruthless, maybe all you really need is The Bufalino, a three-wheeled concept vehicle designed for transportation and shelter. When you need to get to the office, simply fold up the driver’s seat and hit the gas. When you’ve left work for the day and you find a nice place to park your ride for the night, you can fold the seat back down into a bed and settle in for a good night’s sleep.

The Bufalino, a mini-RV concept car from designer Corneliu Comanns, features a stove, a basin that works like a sink, and a connected water tank so you have running water, a small fridge, and both walls have slots for storing your clothes and personal possessions. There’s even space for a desk and a workbench so you can get some work done if you feel like “working from home.” Admittedly the Bufalino will likely never make it into mass production, which is just as well since there doesn’t seem to be a toilet or a shower anywhere in the vehicle.

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Kia has largely steered clear of the electric car battlegrounds, focusing instead on smaller, lower-cost options that get good enough gas mileage as-is. It ain’t a bad tactic, but considering that even Rolls Royce is purportedly mulling an EV, the automaker was bound to cave to the peer pressure soon or later. During the upcoming Paris Motor Show, Kia is expected to formally introduce the oddity you see above, which is (for now) only known as the “Pop concept.” The battery-powered whip will emit no emissions whatsoever, measures in at just three meters long and somehow finds enough room for three humans within. Details beyond that are scant (read: nonexistent), but you can head on over to Autoblog Green if you need a few more images to chew on.

Kia’s ‘Pop’ electric car concept makes our inner urbanite swoon originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can’t say we’ve ever seen anything like this before… well, aside from those cameras of old that forced you to look down into the viewfinder while cradling the camera against your gut. In fact, that’s exactly the experience that Yaniv Berg is attempting to recreate here, with his Digital Reflex Camera concept shaped more like a periscope and less like a camera. In theory, at least, all of the hardware would be encased in a tube, and if you flip the camera, the LCD turns into a display, creating an undercover spy device of epic proportions. Naturally, there’s probably no hope that this will ever hit retail, but feel free to check back a few score from now to see just how close this was to predicting the future.

Digital Reflex Camera concept puts the viewfinder on top, everything else in a tube originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A while ago we mentioned the GameGripper, a gamepad attachment for some Android mobile phones that adds gamepad buttons to your Android phone to use while gaming. Now, Australian design firm CP Design has come up with the GPod: a slide-on iPhone case that adds a directional-pad to the left of your iPhone and four individual action buttons on the right. The pad also has buttons for start and select, and a pass-through slot for the iPhone’s home button at the bottom of the display.

The GPod is just a design, and the firm is looking for companies to assist in commercializing the device, as well as making games that support its button layout. The developers built two prototypes, one black and the other white, and used them with a custom emulated version of Donkey Kong Country for the SNES to test the GPod. The original design was specifically for the original iPhone, but CP Design is planning a new model for the iPhone 3G and 3Gs, if the project gets off the ground.