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I drooled at the idea of an iPhone Pro with slide keyboard and big honkin’ camera, but let’s face it: It’s probably never going to happen. So—using logic—what will the next iPhone look like?

Probably something like this: A flatter, even more tapered and slender version of the current one. After all, if you have a winning formula, why radically change it?

Matt says that he would be disappointed if it ends being something like this, just a version of the current model. I’m going to be pessimist and expect just an evolution of the current design. The market keeps growing with what they have now, so it won’t make sense for them to go through a radical design change just yet. And besides this point, there are at least three generations of smooth evolution and tweaks in Apple hardware designs until something completely new comes along (witness the iMacs, for example.)

Not that it really matters: As long as they include a bigger camera sensor while reducing the thickness to iPod touch levels, I’d be happy. But who knows, perhaps there will be a radical departure. What do you think? Do you have any original idea? Send it to us. [Dotdosh]

I don’t know what this is and I don’t care. It may be a MacBook Mini concept. Or a crazy leak. Or just a perfect fake. Whatever. It’s beautiful. I want. [Updated with pictures].

According to a 9to5 reader, this perfect rendering, photoshop, or whatever the hell it is came inside a Russian magazine. My knowledge of Russian doesn’t go beyond “hey, wanna dance?”, “cheers,” and “you have beautiful blue eyes, let’s go back to mine” so I don’t have a clue about what this page is saying. If you speak the language of Dostoyevsky, drop me a line because I want to know.

Whatever they claim it is, I don’t care. It just looks too good and perfect to be true—which is why I want it to be real: It’s exactly as I can imagine it will be. And with the perfect, dream technical specs to boot:

• 10.4″ WXGA display.
• 1280 x 768 pixel with LED backlighting.
• NVIDIA MCP79
• Intel Atom Z740 1.83GHz with 1MB L2 cache.
• 2GB DDR3-800.
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
• 64GB Solid State Drive.
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n
• 1 x USB 2.0
• 1 x Mini Display Port
• Battery Li-Ion 5100mA

Update: Added comparison shot with a Mac Book Air

According to them, it will come sometime in 2009 for $899. You know, delivered to your door by ten flying Russian mail order brides, all of them virgin. Or something like that. [9to5]

Hyundai has revealed the first pictures of the BLUE-WILL, a plug-in hybrid concept car the automaker will reveal at the Seoul Motor Show on April 2nd, 2009. The car’s parallel hybrid system features a 1.6-liter direct injection gasoline motor, a 100 kilowatt electric motor, a continuously variable transmission, and a lithium ion polymer battery pack.

The lithium ion polymer pack is the first use of the technology in a production car, according to Hyundai, and is situated next to the fuel tank underneath the rear seats to maximize storage space in the trunk. The car also has a panoramic roof which integrates dye-sensitized solar cells in order to regenerate the batteries without blocking the view. Various parts of the car will be made from recycled materials, including bioplastics, plants, and soft drink bottles and will also be bio-degradable.

(More photos after the break.)

We’re suckers for power-strip designs. As gadget nerds, we’re constantly faced with overloaded circuits and blocked ports. For the latter, there’s this design by Jeff Carter that neatly overcomes the limitations presented by the ubiquitous (and ridiculous) side-by-side strip design. Regarding our excessive power issues, that’s easy: more interns to shovel the coal and kittens.

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It may sound like sheer insanity, but it’s the right sort of crazy sauce if you ask us. ASUS is planning to make its Fold / Unfold laptop concept into a for-reals product this year, with plans to ship by Q3. That seems pretty accelerated for something we’ve only seen in concept form, and something with such a new and interesting form factor — Fold / Unfold’s keyboard slides backwards as you open the display to maximize room for keys, trackpad and palm rest (video of the “folding” action is after the break). The concepts we’ve seen have also been suspiciously thin, so hopefully ASUS can pull this off without compromising this delicious form factor too terribly much. Sadly, that dual-touchscreen concept is further out, there’s currently no slated window for commercialization.

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ASUS plans to ship Fold / Unfold laptop concept this year! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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