Futuristic concepts and designs are a rage. The latest in the category is the “Bed of the future”. If you are thinking that it will be loaded with high-tech speakers and LCDs, you are wrong. Instead of all those techno-features the is futuristic in a different sense. It basically targets your comfort levels.
It works on a technology that makes it an adjustable system via 8 built-in motors that help you adjust the bed in hundreds different positions to give you the most comfy position.
It also brings along an infrared remote control with which you can modify the positions of the bed.

Not just this, the bed also features spacious storage system like the regular double beds and a elegantly designed headboard upholstered in elegant napa leather and is available in a variety of colors adding into the lavishness. Talking about the price, the futuristic Swiss System Royal bed will cost you a crisp $8000 USD and to bring it in your bedroom you’ll have to head to Isreal where it is being sold currently.
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Failing to manage laundry and piles of dirty clothes is one of the many daily chores that are left unattended by so many busy people, whose jobs doesn’t leave them with time to take care of them. So with a view to offer a little help to such souls Guopeng Liang brings iBasket – an automated washing machine.

By making it to the top nine Electrolux Design Lab ’08 finalists, iBasket is sure to catch some fancy with the laundry maniacs.

With a transparent cylindrical body made of acrylic glass, engineered plastic and recycled aluminum, the washing machine is pre-programmed to start off the washing spree only after collecting a specific weight of clothes. Once done. It washes the dirty lot for a selected duration, while the built-in air refresh system gets of the smelly odors. And once the washing is over, the LEDs fixed at the bottom flashes out to give you the signal. Not just this, it will also give you a ‘work done’ message on your cell phone and computer via a wireless so that the busy bee that you are, don’t forget that your cleaning business is done! We hope the concept gets real too soon!

Via: Alienhome

Ever rode a bicycle? If your answer is yes, then I’m sure you must have wished at some point of your long morning exercise that your bicycle could have a special engine that could help you get rid off that pedaling when you got tired. Against all our expectations that desire never materialized. But it seems someone has finally heard your far cry and designed this futuristic bicycle…err BRycle. It’s called the BRicycle just because the Brain behind the Bricycle is Bryan

This one is yet another example of homebuilt electric vehicles, but ulike the other embarrassing designs , this one seems quite sensuous. Though not reach its final consummation as yet, but once ready the Bricycle will be good enough to carry one person.

The best and the most important feature of this futuristic delivery truck is that it comes fitted with a 48-volt electric-assist motor that can come to your rescue when you get tired of pedaling. Not just this, the uber-cool bricycle features 21 bicycle gears, and four-wheel disc brakes for quick stops. Now that’s quite impressive! Can someone please tel me when is it hitting the roads?

Via: Engadget/ Bricycles

I opened the day with a futuristic concept, in the same vein comes the next find. I’m talking about a phone that different from the other phones in the material that goes to make it the ‘Soft Phone’!

Made not from plastic or metal but softest cotton, the cell phone will be soft and flexible enough to be squeezed with your hands. Though the phone is soft and light in appearance, but doesn’t go the compromise way when it comes to performance, features and power.

Designed by Qian Jiang, the soft phone is made out of electronic cellulose structures, which make a series of discs with electronic fabric stretched in between, which in turn give the phone its shape.

The phone uses a series of gestures to bring the phone in action. Like you need to squeeze it to hang up and touch to make inputs. The fine fibers are quite optically clear to take the signal and allow light energy to pass thru to display simple contextual menus.

There’s more to it. Just unfurl the collapsible phone and there you have a QWERTY, while a tiny clip made in soft squeezable, stress reducing silica holds the cell antenna, battery, camera, and micro electronics are contained inside a tiny clip which itself is made of soft, squeezable, stress-reducing silica.

Only thing that I couldn’t trace in the phone was the receivers…do tell us if you spot it!
Via: Yankodesign