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Aurora: The Future Browsing Concept

Adaptive Path partnered with Mozilla Labs produced a video of a concept browser model called Aurora. It’s a part of Mozilla Labs’ browser concept series which is an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of browsing and the web.

With Aurora, we set out to define a plausible vision of how technology, the browser, and the Web might evolve in the future by depicting that experience in a variety of real-world contexts.

Judging from the video, the Aurora concept is actually pretty cool. It looks like a combination of instant messaging service client, a browser and an online collaboration tool. The users can interact with each other within the browser. From what it looked like, you can even have someone do the browsing for you.

The second video is for mobile application. The browser is trimmed down and optimized for mobile phones.

You can also watch the video in HD at their site and check for updates on the Aurora concept.

Tags: aurora, browser, Concept, future

The Nokia Eco Sensor Phone Concept

A new concept phone was announced by the cellphone giant Nokia. Its a mobile phone that keeps track of your health and environment. You can also share the environmental data your sensing device collects and view other users’ shared data, thereby increasing your global environmental awareness. It’s like an Eco social networking phone .

The concept of the phone consists of two parts. A wearable sensor unit which can sense and analyze your environment, health, and local weather conditions, and a dedicated mobile phone. The carrying strap used in the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept were made from solar cells which will provide power to the sensor unit.

The design is a winner on my book, it’s simple and minimal yet gives you that cool factor. Nokia said that both the phone and the sensor unit will be as compact as possible to minimize material use, and those materials used in the design will be renewable and/or reclaimed. Technologies used inside the phone and sensor unit will also help save energy.

Tags: Concept, Eco Sensor, Environment Friendly, Health, Monitor, Nokia, Phone