Might be worth looking into the ComCom conference in Japan this fall. The picture in this article doesn’t look like what’s described, but is clearly a media “outlet.”
“My favorite article was about Toshiko Sakai’s integrated home appliances for ComCom (Comfortable Communications). The original brief by ComCom was to design a remote control. Thank Toshiko, he looked further than the brief and designed a line of 22 integrated electronic products. One of them is this wall mount triple socket. It has a USB port and a built-in hard disk. You can store music and movies in it and send them to other products in the same product line. The system will be shown in October in ComCom’s show apartment in Tokyo.”
Devices design, electronics, hard drive, home appliance, remote control, Tokyo, USB
Another camera, this one a camcorder to wear around your neck.
The KEY019 is handy and light, basically a thumb drive with a lens. It ships with a lanyard for wearing it around your neck, but unlike other Key Ring products, the strap has no embedded controls. Instead, a remote is attached to the headphone cord, allowing for easy navigation of your pictures, songs, and clips. …
It’s an MP3 player and digital camera the same size and shape as the earlier devices, with one great addition: It’s also a camcorder. You can use the 128MB of internal memory for 2.0-megapixel still shots, digital video, MP3 files, and document storage.The KEY019 is handy and light, basically a thumb drive with a lens. It ships with a lanyard for wearing it around your neck, but unlike other Key Ring products, the strap has no embedded controls. Instead, a remote is attached to the headphone cord, allowing for easy navigation of your pictures, songs, and clips.
Devices camcorder, camera, mobileTech, MP3, remote control, wearable