Apple 1987 Concept Video Showed Advanced Search Engine
By Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 02/19/09 - 5:30pm.
This YouTube video shows the Apple Knowledge Navigator, a 1987 concept video produced by Apple.
The user performs a journal search using an interactive voice-operated search engine. Very nicely done, and very insightful for 22 years ago.
And there were no popup-ads either.
Companies make concept videos for a variety of reasons. One such reason is to inspire their staff by producing their “ideal fantasy design”, then to step back and build a real product that can actually be made.
Here are examples of modern concept videos. Maybe in 22 years we can look back at these and see how real they became:
Nokia 888 Concept Phone
Morph Concept Nanoscale Phone
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wait
hey, my dad has that furniture book in the nokia video
DOne deal
Wow dude that is very cool stuff.
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Nokia
Looks like that Nokia video was done in 2005, with the iPhone coming just two years later. Alarm clocks, maps with directions, incoming calls with a photo of the caller... those guys didn't think far enough ahead.
This conept videos were Awesome
And very inspiration. Technology really allows the mind to run wild. I wouldn't mind have one of those hi-tech devices.
Nokia video is simply disturbing
Not recommended for epileptic.
really futuristic?
Apart from it bending, recent phones can do everything the 888 can do can't they?
that was terrible
the first ad was all business...where were the addicting flash games, and facebook?
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