Times Inc. seems to be making large strides in the tablet arena as a new means to distribute their magazines content and keep readers engaged. The videos of this knew Times Tablet makes it feel like magazines are basically going to be websites viewed on portable hardware.

You can see more of Ashley’s work on her Behance page or in this interactive page.

Convert is an iPhone application for converting values between currencies, measurements, dimensions, etc. Here’s the video.

You can read more about the video on TapTapTap’s blog.

Josh Ulm shares on his site a project called Nova. Josh explains Nova as:

It prioritizes use cases which enable users to create, share and save powerful, personal content by connecting them instantly to the stuff they do most and the people they care about and providing exciting, extensible network content and services across devices.

You can see that the design also maps to several services provided by Adobe, like Photoshop Express and Adobe Media Player. I’m sure a lot of people wished the home screen of their mobile device could look like this.

Check out more of Josh’s work on his site.

The Koike Laboratory created just that for Digital Contents Expo. The table top game allowed multiple users to shoot at each other using pinching gestures.

You can read the rest of the article and watch a video of the game on CrunchGear.

Evan Gurgui and Joe Dougherty collaborated to put a new slant on the child’s car seat. Evan and Joe describe the concept:

An infant car seat that focused on redesigning safety and parental interaction through innovative installation, protection, in and out of car carrying, and everyday holding.

You can watch videos of the project on the car seat project page.

Another example of Nokia R&D is the Morph device. Concepts like flexible material, advanced sensory inputs and self-powering are explored in this device. As explained by Nokia:

the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored

Below is the video produced to explain the Morph concept. You can learn more on the Nokia Research website.

Neue Digitale / Razorfish worked together to created a multi-touch, realtime Audi car configurator. A description from the original blog post states:

To control the actual car configuration process users can place multilingual tokens on the table. All available options appear around the token and can be selected by touching or rotating the physical token.

The ability to bring other objects into the environment and have them interact with what’s on the screen is another way the line becomes blurred between the physical and digital space.

You can read more about the Audi car configurator on the Emerging Experiences blog.

There’s a lot of really interesting things happening in this video, including the integration between all these “devices”. The concept video was posted by Hana Ken on Vimeo.

giving drivers a wealth of information in an enticing format without confusing or, worse, distracting them, proved challenging.

Dashboards have to communicate a lot of different information in a time frame that is very short (while a person is driving). You can read more about the project on infosthetics.com.