Dieter Rams, Braun coffee machine (KF 20 Aromaster), 1972
Currently typing from this. Most beautiful laptop ever, even better than the Air IMO. And it's more functional than anything else out there. Apple hit a home run with this design.
Ay yes, I forgot about those sexy ass things
Because I just got mine.
Technics SL-1200. 1972-2010. RIP
Been meaning to get one. Has the price dropped anywhere yet?
Technics SL-1200. 1972-2010. RIP
I dig it. What brand is that?
Eh, in pictures the WP7 interface always pushes the sexiness of the phone itself down a notch. It's just not good looking imho.
The visual appeal from WP7 comes from the animations and fluidness of the UI, something you only experience in real life.
So, at least when it comes to pictures of the phones, I disagree with you.
Nokia Lumia 800
This is the best looking phone ever. It's just so beautiful.
Galaxy Nexus
While it doesn't look amazing in picture form, the remarkable thing about it is how comfortable it is to hold. It makes you forget you're holding a 4.65 inch screen phone.
Macbook Air
Incredibly revolutionary in it's design. Just beautiful.
Wacom Cintiq 21HD
I'm not sure if it's the design, or just that seeing it makes me instinctively drool, but I want it so bad.
Wii
I've always like the Wii's minimalistic design. Looks great in contrast to the other two behemoth consoles.
I bought a nook Touch based almost solely on its physical design. All I wanted it for was ebooks and I love its minimalist frame.
Haha, funny how I posted the same thing just within a few minutes.
I want one so bad but $1,000+ for a clock is crazy.
I just recently, finally, got the Zune HD. What an amazing device. The interface is by far the most intuitive on any device I've used. Within the first 20 minutes I felt like I had been using it for years. That Zune font is very elegant. Animations are smooth and I love the way artist images are pulled up and used as background images. Really nice touch. The hardware itself is much smaller, thinner and lighter than I had anticipated. I also really like the shape of the hardware.
I fuckin love this thing.
I really wish MS hadn't given up on the Zune HD line so quickly. They really were great and have dramatically better sound than the ipod/iphone line.
well, the desk version is much cheaper. i might have to go for that...
There are plenty of "better" ipod contenders that have come and gone but their hold on the market and culture is way too strong. People just get ipods. It's the safe, no brainer choice. I chose Zune mainly because I can't stand iTunes. I've had every major Zune and love them all.Hopefully the fact that it even came out marks a start where more electronics developers shoot for Apple levels of design.
EDIT: The G4 cube looks sexy as hell but when it first came out I remember one of my father's clients complaining that all of the ports were on the bottom. It always struck me as an incredibly baffling decision from Apple. I do wish Apple would return to experimenting with desktop design like that: the current iMac lines look great of course, but they had some amazingly slick designs.
THIS THREAD IS GREAT
-Modern yet Retro-:
These things mess with my mind so bad.
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Gotta go with everything in these posts, especially the Wii and Nook. Amazon dropped the design ball with the new Kindles IMO. (Although I don't like the Nook Color's design that much, either.)
If we can step inside the world of software products, there's only one that's made me truly head over heels.
Aside from a few perplexing decisions, like the removal of the + sign on the new tab button, and the upcoming "uber" settings page, I feel every decision made when designing and making Chrome was the right one. And every decision since has only made it better. I really have to give a shout out to Chrome 6's interface tweaks that finally made the browser "grown up," sleek, and minimalistic.
Simple sync, never having to worry about updates (to the browser, or extensions), trying to make web apps at parity with smartphone apps, an entire OS devoted to the ideals of the cloud... I could go on and on, but if we're counting both hardware and software product designs, Chrome is the only one to steal my heart.
While I suspect a lot of people posting in this thread will have already seen it, the documentary Objectified (Netflix streaming) is required viewing!
I really hope the attention it is getting now remains constant for a long time.
Ideally I would have posted this on a Friday, but I could not resist. Hopefully everyone enjoys it for a while!
What can a banana do for me? Aesthetically the yellow is pleasing, and the gentle curve is grace...wait... what am I doing?
BANANA.