Philips Memento

Some more of those Philips concept gadgets coming up. This one is the Momento, a snow scene-style video player that will playback your home movie clips, showing a new one every time you shake the ball. It was larger than it looks in this picture, but I quite liked the idea of removing controls and having something totally basic for normal people to use. The idea is that any video from places like your mobile or digicam would be picked up automatically by the crystal ball, saving you the hassle of having to download stuff onto it, or plug anything in. A neat little concept that's probably not the most practical solution (it's pretty much restricted to one or two people peering at it at a time and everything goes a bit fish-eye), but appealing nonetheless.

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