Future Gadgets: Hottest concept tech of 2012

The future gadgets represent the very cutting edge future of technology and product design. A concept is a dream; brimming with the features and design you want with nary a polite ‘hello’ to the physical limitations that’d make it impossible in the real world.

Inevitably either things would cost too much, can’t be made that small, or are light-years ahead of today’s available tech. Either way, it’s not enough to stop us dreaming and admiring the tech of the future.

As a new year beckons, we'll be bringing you the most exciting new concept tech every month. Fasten your seatbelts.

1. March 2012: Apollon

Fancy a bit of social photography action? This concept snapper enables a group of friends who are also need to be in possession of an Apollon camera to take photos of the same event and then combine them wirelessly to deliver the action from different angles. You can then also transfer digital copies of all the images back to your camera, leaving you to choose which ones are keepers.

Designer: Gordon Tiemstra

2. March 2012: OSX on iPad with magic mouse

Those Cupertino chaps continue to work on merging iOS and OSX worlds closer together, but what would it look like if you mix and matched the hardware? Maybe it would look a little something like this. Taking the Bluetooth Magic Mouse and keyboard from a Mac and combining it with the Retina display-toting new iPad, it could just be the ultimate laptop/tablet hybrid...
Designer: Zeki Osek

3. March 2012: The Four concept

Maybe you would never consider hanging up your iPad on the wall, but this 145x235 mm tablet is geared towards adding slate action to your living room or wherever there is a free space to give it pride of place. Toting a multi-touch AMOLED screen, the slick-looking tablet which doubles as a digital painting, will deliver weather forecasts that can be quickly accessed before you head out, deliver travel planning facilities and create a natural ambience to put you in a good mood for the day ahead.
Designer: Marko Vuckovic

4. March 2012: BlackBerry Blade

Assuming a beautiful quad-core phone would ever make it into the real world considering the latest news from RIM, we'd like to think that if BlackBerry changes its mind further down the line, the Blade could compete against the iPhones and Android phones of this world. A quad-core processor running at 1.5GHz, 4.5-inch AMOLED display and 12-megapixel camera are touted for a smartphone we are most certainly never likely to see.
Designer: Pixelcarve

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