Great Minds Think Alike!

It's funny cos, was just browsing the Yanko Design Blog .. and found that Sungwoo Park & Bongkun Shin came up with a concept that is similar to mine! Except their concept layout is way more professional haha :p

The blog editor pointed a question out though: "Many modern cards utilize texture in the design which a screen doesn’t pick up. Many also use front/back layouts which this concept doesn’t seem to address." I think this proposed some interesting improvements that could be further developed - perhaps in the future they'd have OLED screens that are texturally tactile!! That would be qool.

Anys, here are some of their graphic presentations:


Really nice CAD modeeling, very clear and distinct layout of the design object too.

Nice photoshop rendering - but I just thought they should have at least hired a better looking pair of hands... or at least put some moisturizer on!!

This is really professional - the exploded axometric perspective of the design. I also like how they have inserted a search scroll - even though I don't really know how they are going to navigate through the interface if it ain't touch creen (and obviously you can't see any other buttons apart from the mode button); then again, their device is simpler in terms of the software. I just thought, if they were going to enter these contact details into their laptops, they'd have to type it in themselves - whereas what I had in mind was that it could be transferred digitally by means of a USB port.

One more thing though, their scanner is incredibly thin!! This nanotechnology surely won't be happening for another 5 years down the track? Who knows!

Nonetheless, I like their search interface though - very 'Apple', haha!

By the way, Yanko posted this on the 8th September 2008 - just to clarify that I didn't steal their idea!

More images from http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/09/08/digitize-that-stack-of-business-cards/