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Do you long for the iPhone to be given a real keyboard?

Some would  as others remain happy with the touch-screen style board.

With the aid of some Photoshop craftiness here are some design ideas - but we all have to take into consideration the additional width that a real keyboard would add to the Apple 3Gesus phone.

Please feast your eyeballs with these two wish-list iPhone prototypes.

The first is by Mat Brady named the iPhone Elite and the second — an altered version of Brady’s — by Gizmodo dubbed the iPhone Pro.

Some features include an impossibly thin slide-out keyboard, high-quality camera with an optical zoom, 60GB of storage, a front-facing chat camera, and even Nintendo-esque game controls which, of course, add almost nothing to the thickness of the device…but in the really real world?……………. it aint gonna happen now is it?

Marvel at Brady’s design, the iPhone Elite:

And here’s Gizmodo’s tweaked iPhone Pro (note the additional controls):

Remember when the Met-Office sent the lads to tell us the weather?  They’d be there in their best tweed suits moving magnetic symbols around in an attempt to tell us what the weather will (probably) be doing tomorrow?

Now it’s all svelte young blondes and more computer graphics than your average Hollywood blockbuster!

The top man was Michael Fish of course.  A man who dedicated 30 years of his life to making sure people like us didn’t forget our umbrellas.

Now the man that is the weather legend (bar the slight miscalculation regarding an unforeseen hurricane in ‘89), is yours to stick to your fridge, along with 34 other magnetic retro magnets Fished from the vaults of the BBC. Have a go at doing your own forecast, you’ll be surprised at how accurate it is.

This has to be a great British Christmas gift idea!

If you happen to be a designer of mobile phones you’re pretty much cornered into a number of ‘must haves’:

1. They have to be pocketable
2. They must look cool when shoved up against your face
3. Even though its small it somehow must have a great display that can hold a bunch of icons and be able to display video

So, how can you shove what in essence has to be the desktop viewing experience into a device small enough to fit the skinniest jeans?

Entree Samsung’s new concept phone that’s being shown off at the FPD International show in Yokohama.

It opens like a book to reveal a flexible OLED big enough to handle all those video flicks that you carry around with you.

Calm yourselves though.  There’s no word on when we’ll actually see such a beast hit production.

Until then - check out this video

Via Engadget

Yo! Check it bruv.

Dis ere is my dawg; G-Dog yo!

Ahem………..

Sorry but for some reason this robo-mut makes me wanna spit gangsta style.

Perhaps it has something to do with this robo-mut being called G-Dog.

Japanese robot maker HPI will start selling this robotic dog, the above named later this month.

The mainly aluminium pooch-droid is powered by a 7.2V nickel metal hydride battery and features a total of nine servomotors. It measures 75×135×190mm and weighs 570g. Good doggy.

Users will be able to control the G-Dog wirelessly via a Playstation-like joypad. The robot is able to sit up and beg, crawl and roll over to its side.

You never know - this canny canine may even get the chance to mark its territory outside of Japan for a change.

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Every now and then there’s a beautifully simple design that is so intuative it beggers belief as to why no-one else had thought of it.

But, John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen’s has done just that with his ”Hidden Radio” concept design.

Volume is controlled by lifting or pushing down the top part to reveal more, or less, of the speaker.

There are no dials for tuning - listeners rely on the brightness of the LED to signify the strength of signal as they twist the top.

As I said, it’s simply genius thinking!

Hidden Radio, Via - LikeCool, Via Pocket Lint