Another week, another batch of fanciful designs and concepts. Industrial designers produce the kind of tech you can only dream of, largely because they don’t concern themselves with problems like current tech limitations and physics. …But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the week’s top designs and hope for the best. Read more
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Industrial designers and conceptual thinkers don’t often concern themsevles with the fiddly ins and outs of physics or real life technology. If left to their own devices, they’ll produce the kind of tech you can only dream of: beautiful, if completely unfeasible. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the best bits from the future tech concept drawing board and hope for the best. Join us, then, on a weekly look through this best in blue-sky thinking tech designs…
Apple doesn’t own the idea of using aluminium in gadget designs or creating a phone where the touchscreen is the focus of all your attentions but there’s a certain Cupertino touch that other manufacturers relentlessly attempt to mimic.
We’ve seen it this morning with the unveiling of the Dell XPS 15z which cops a lot of moves from the MacBook Pro – from its aluminium/magnesium alloy shell to the placement of its speakers, the arrows on its backlit keyboard and the positioning of its ports and slot-loading DVD drive. Is it asking to much to expect designers to do something a little different?
‘Is that it? Is it really done?’
As reactions go, it probably wasn’t what Todd Wood – BlackBerry’s most senior designer – had been dreaming of. But despite his employer’s initial response to the minimalist PlayBook – a rival to Apple’s iPad – the tablet is set to become the most important product in RIM’s history. It is pivotal to the company’s reputation – not to its bottom line… Read more
Yesterday we got hands on with a Windows Phone 7 prototype. The thing that the Windows Phone 7 seem to be most pleased with about with this phone is the design. But on getting a little hands on, we were baffled. The design looks great, really great, and the news that hubs can be created by developers restores confidence. However, there’s some crucial flaws with the Windows Phone 7 design, one of which struck me more than anything else.
The HTC Legend is the best piece of design we’ve seen in recent years that hasn’t come out of Jonny Ive’s studio at Apple HQ in Cupertino. But is the unibody hunk a winner? Or just an Apple rip-off par excellence? Read our complete HTC Legend Design and Build review to find out.
The Nokia E97 is an incredible looking phone, packed with features and stylistic flourishes. Shame it doesn’t exist, really.