Technology Design by Mac Funamizu

I have been following the work of Mac Funamizu, a web/graphic/industrial designer, since 2007 and wanted to share the work from his blog "petitinvention". As you can tell from his nickname, Mac is a self confessed Apple fan and it's his amazing concept designs of technology that I find especially interesting. I have added a few of my favourites below.

The first is a transparent desktop PC known as "Zafiro" that incorporates a sleek, futuristic design, inspired by the Sci-Fi movie "Minority Report". With the transparent OLED technology shown at CES, this design could become a reality over the next few years. I would love to see the iMac go in this direction.

Zafiro also includes the transparent disk docking, as seen in Minority Report. Very cool!

The second (award winning) design is known as "Looking Glass". It is this type of innovative design work that I expect from Apple in the eagerly anticipated tablet (currently dubbed iSlate). 

Looking Glass works by pointing the device at a person or object to interactively display information. When combined with a fully fledged touch screen and wireless connectivity this type of design has almost endless possibilities.

The final design is the "click-out trackpad". My notebook comes everywhere with me and although the trackpad on a Mac is in my opinion the best on the market, you still can't beat a fully fledged mouse. With this design you get the best of both worlds in one package.

I am not completely convinced about the ergonomics, however if you build in the multi-touch functionality of the Magic Mouse you could have a winner. I'm not sure we will ever see this design come to market, but still a unique idea.

I suggest you head over to Mac's blog "petitinvention" to check out the rest of his work.