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After ages we get to set our eyes on a Sony concept! Looks like there still some fans out there! What we have today is the Sony Xperia X Concept. It is a high-end phone inspired by the first generation S tablet. The curved shape at the top and supporting internal curves on the sides offer a better grip. The back has a flipstand that opens and supports the phone, especially when you need to navigate the smartphone vertically or viewa panoramic videos.

Features include a screen of 4.6″, mini-HDMI connector, SIM slot, microSD slot, back and front cameras. The Xperia logo on the front works as an illuminator of notifications that adopts a different color for each application.

Designer: Abel Verdezoto

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En exclusivité sur Fubiz avec Louis Vuitton, le réalisateur Jérémie Rozan nous propose de découvrir cette vidéo appelée « Voyage dans le temps ». Sur le morceau de Justice – Planisphere, cette création projette le mannequin Alana Zimmer dans un univers où science fiction et joaillerie se mélangent. Plus dans la suite.

How many unprocessed messages are in your inbox right now? Is getting to inbox zero one of your daily goals? I’ve heard of some (brave) people who declare email bankruptcy (deleting everything) because of how time consuming it would be to process every message. That might seem a bit extreme, but it’s easy to understand why someone would want to start from scratch.

Sifting through emails can be tedious, especially if you don’t have strategies for processing all your messages. It doesn’t have to be difficult, though, and you can use technology to help to keep your inbox from getting out of control. Take, for instance, The E-mail Game. It turns your inbox into a game and you get points each time you read, delete, boomerang, or reply to a message. You’re also timed, so you need to make a decision about what to do with each message pretty quickly (usually a three to five minute window). I’ve played it many times (and still do) to keep personal inbox uncluttered.

Recently, I’ve found two free web-based programs that remove email clutter that help me to pay attention to priority messages: Unsubscriber by OtherInbox and Unroll.me. Both let you unsubscribe from unwanted emails (like newsletters you signed up for but you don’t want anymore) and redirect specific messages from your inbox so that you can keep the important ones more visible.

Have a look …

Unsubscriber by OtherInbox

After signing up, you’ll need to give Unsubscriber permission to access your email account. The app then checks your messages and looks for the ones it thinks you may want to unsubscribe from. You can also select the ones you really don’t want.

The app also adds an “Unsubscriber” folder to your inbox. To stop getting unwanted emails, drag and drop them to that folder. Unsubscriber then tells the sender of those unwanted messages that you want to stop receiving them. While that’s being worked on, all new mail from that sender is routed to the Unsubscriber folder. Note that this folder is not for spam (you already have a folder for that). This app can be used with Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo mail.

Unroll.me

Unroll.me, though similiar to Unsubscriber, is slightly different. Once you sign up and give access to your e-mail account (Gmail and Google Apps users only), the app scans your mail for subscriptions and then adds them to a “rollup,” or daily digest that is sent to you once per day. New subscriptions are automatically added to your rollup. A nice feature is that Unroll.me organizes your email into specific categories (Unsubscriber has a similar feature with it’s sister app, Organizer).

You still have control over your messages and can edit your rollup by returning some emails to your inbox or permanently unsubscribing. As you can see, I have 149 messages that have been filtered to my rollup, some of which I will probably delete permanently. Not having to scroll through them in order to get to the messages I really need to see makes processing email a lot quicker. The key, of course, is to check your rollup once daily and maintain it so it doesn’t become a repository for junk messages.

Both apps are easy to use and help you to keep your eye on your most important messages. This means you’ll be able to respond to messages more quickly without having to weed through less time-sensitive emails. And, you just might get a bit closer to inbox zero.

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Noting our growing reliance on smartphones, designer and entrepreneur Emre Kosmaz is predicting that hardware is ultimately a zero-sum game: the more we use smartphones for personal computing and connectivity, the less we need tablets, laptops and PCS. He started his eponymous Bay Area company “to change the way people use the computer through an innovative hardware concept.” Unveiled yesterday, just two days before what could be yet another historic debut at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kosmaz Technologies presents the NexPhone:

NexPhone wants to change mobile computing forever by taking the power of the smartphone to an unmatched level like never before. NexPhone is designed essentially to become user’s primary PC to create, view and edit documents and other content. This is achieved by Ubuntu for Android software, bringing real computer experience… NexPhone also becomes your tablet when it is used with our tablet dock and becomes your Laptop or PC bringing full desktop experience when it is used with our NexLaptop or NexMonitor docks. Together, they provide revolutionary interactive computing experience that empowers consumers to use one single device at home, at the office or on the road without the need of synchronizing their content or contacts with other devices.

By tapping the ever-increasing processing power of mobile devices, Kosmaz augurs a smartphone-centered ecosystem of peripherals as analogues for the current categories. “With NexPhone, we are rethinking what a smartphone can be in the future and creating a new category of consumer electronic device that combines the power of a tablet and PC with the latest smartphone features, while eliminating consumers’ need for additional computers.”

Aside from the OS and renderings, details are scant at this point; in the “Design Story” section of the site acknowledges that Apple is the only consumer electronics company that has achieved an iconic brand identity. Recent litigation aside, I’m more interested in the fact that the NexPhone is expressly designed as a sort of anti-cloud device, forgoing the need for syncing by localizing all of one’s data within a single, pocketable object. (The Phone is attached to a data plan, providing connectivity when attached to any of the larger devices.)

Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of plug-and-play hardware concept: the Asus version from nearly a year ago was met with quite a bit of skepticism. Personally, I thought that the previous ‘nesting’ concept—the Asus smartphone plugged into the tablet like a removable battery—was rather more elegant… but the question remains: yea or nay?

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Streepong est un concept ingénieux d’interaction urbaine entre deux passants à un feu rouge. Pensée par Sandro Engel et Holger Michel, cette installation développée par HAWK Hildesheim invite 2 personnes attendant au feu rouge à jouer une partie de pong à distance. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.