The patented
concept device features two touchscreen displays, and when folded out, looks like a traditional laptop.
Lenovo showed off a couple
of concept devices using the tech last year, including a wrist - band device and a phone that expanded into a tablet when unfolded.
As Mobile World Congress starts, Vivo unveiled the APEX, a brand
new concept device that takes fingerprint scanning and full - screen smartphone design to a whole new level.
The Vivo APEX
concept device uses an improved in - display fingerprint scanning technology that differs from what we saw at CES.
Granted, it was a limited
edition concept device with a single curved edge, but it announced to the world that Samsung had the technological prowess to develop displays that seemed to effortlessly flow off of the side.
The
Apex concept device strips the bezels back even further than we're now getting used to, and it achieves that by vibrating the screen so as to produce sound without an earpiece.
For example, a Sony
concept device called Wandular would use software updates and hardware plug - ins to ensure that it is cherished over a lifetime, while its functionality keeps pace.
The Mix 4 is a 5.9 -
inch concept device with a display free from both bezels or notches, allowing for a screen - to - body ratio of 97 %.
The Every Drop Counts Water
Meter concept device is a clever idea on how to not only measure water consumption, like so many shower timers and meters, but also detect any drips or leaks so that a user consumes wastes as little
Keeping a closer eye on water consumption is important, and we wouldn't be surprised to see more detailed and innovative
concept devices like this eventually coming to market, in the same way that home power monitors have been popping up right and left.
Samsung shows off
flexible concept devices with flexible display and bending the display does not produce any kind of color distortion.
A proof - of -
concept device built by MIT researchers demonstrates the principle of a two - stage process to make incandescent bulbs more efficient.
See, the only other tablet booklet device that's garnering remotely comparable hype is the Courier, Microsoft's dual -
screen concept device leaked to us back in September.
Lenovo and Samsung have
demonstrated concept devices with foldable screens, and other companies have filed patents, but devices have yet to materialize.
There's simply too much actual innovation built into a
single concept device, which Vivo boldly claims is still «only a fraction of our innovation pipeline.»
CES will be packed with various
AR concept devices and gizmos, mostly from smaller players trying to get ahead of expected moves by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants.
The concept phone we'll talk about today is called «Asus Z1 Titan» and is designed by Hege, as a number of previously
shared concept devices have been.
Xiaomi's latest announcement, the Xiaomi Mi MIX, is an all -
ceramic concept device that you can actually buy.
Last year, when the Galaxy Note Edge was unveiled along with the Galaxy Note 4, Samsung said that it would be a «limited
edition concept device».
Lee described the Galaxy Gear as a new
wearable concept device that will «enhance and enrich the current smart mobile experience in many ways.»
It's even looking at new screen sizes for inspiration, with both a 7.7 - inch Tegra 3 Android tablet, which we saw at Mobile World Congress, and a massively girthed 13.3 -
inch concept device.
-- Toshiba has a
new concept device they are about to release that has ebook reading in mind.
The Every Drop Counts Water
Meter concept device is a clever idea on how to not only measure water consumption, like so many shower timers and meters, but also detect any drips or leaks so that a user consumes wastes as little water as possible.
«This is a first - generation, proof - of -
concept device,» Karl said.
While these are proof - of -
concept devices, and not designed for scaling up, the successful demonstration could point the way toward a wide range of potential uses, he says.
The proof - of -
concept device, which has been presented today, 3 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Semiconductor Science and Technology, takes advantage of the latest nano - scale materials and processes to emit green and red light separated by a wavelength of 97 nanometres — a significantly larger bandwidth than a traditional semiconductor.
Created by Curved Labs,
the concept device imagines a 12.9 - inch iPad that retains the thin form factor of the iPad Air at just 7.5 millimeters.
It seems from the technology that Sony decided to bring to this conference was more or less proof of
concept devices, which is why officially they did not divulge the specifications of the e-reader or the new e-paper devices.
HP Developers are busily creating proof of
concept devices that run the latest iteration of the touchscreen friendly Windows 8 OS.
This is obviously just
a concept device, and it'll take years before they'll be able to commercialize something like that, but it's still cool:
The tablet is
a concept device that has never made it outside of Dell labs.
What also has to be kept in mind is that MSI is famous for churning out
concept devices, sometime often weird.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer got a ho - hum reaction as he showed off a new H - P Slate tablet, while executives from Dell Inc. gave a look at what they called a tablet -
concept device that features a 5 - inch screen.
Both of
these concept devices are in their early stages and are expected by the end of 2016.
Pricing information hasn't been divulged, but you can expect to pay a hefty amount for what is essentially
a concept device.
Worried that you might run out of battery power at the bottom of the swimming pool or in your aquarium, Toshiba has also given
the concept device wireless power as well, so you never have to plug it in.
But keep in mind, Project Fiona is
a concept device, actual product specs may vary.
Yanko Designs have come up with one hell of
a concept device with the Fujitsu Iris which sports a transparent OLED display and wireless charging technology.
Razer's «Project Fiona» is
a concept device which runs on Windows and comes with the a PC gaming hybrid user interface and touch is not everything!
It's not clear at the moment whether MSI will actually bring this tablet to market or if it's just
a concept device.
A concept device by designer Yasuhiro Akama would be pretty handy to have while walking in cities.
We're mostly familiar with piezoelectricity when it comes to
concept devices - things that can generate a charge based
We're mostly familiar with piezoelectricity when it comes to
concept devices - things that can generate a charge based on pressure being applied to them.
Whereas the original G Watch was essentially a proof - of -
concept device, the G Watch R looks like a legitimate contender.