Elegant Technology

In a couple of months I will have owned my MacBook Air for a year and I can honestly say that no other laptop (or desktop) has ever delighted me so much. Well perhaps the original 512k Mac and Cube I owned come close.
Why am I so satisfied? What is it that ‘delights’?
In case you [...]

Spend a few hours with Apple Inc. products and you will really start to appreciate the thought that goes into the design.
Recently I purchased a white iPhone 3G and have been impressed with the quality and design of the hardware and the software.
I like the colour white so quite often I place my iPhone [...]

This post is a bit tenuous I know but here goes.
Based on the information relating to availability in the States from the web site…
http://www.topmuffin.com/3g-iphone-availability
… a quick analysis shows that, of the three models, the 16Gb Black iPhone is the most popular followed by the 8Gb Black model. In last place is the 16Gb White model.
The [...]

Having been a dotMac subscriber in the past I had, like many, allowed it to lapse. Luckily Apple retained my ID so that when I bought my MacBook Air I was able to reopen my dotMac account (I actually got a deal from the Apple Store that reduced the cost of dotMac).
Having said all of [...]

I have owned a white PSP in the past and never really ‘got on’ with the form factor because of the games that were available. However, when I saw the a demo of the game flOw and found I could download the game from the Sony online store I went out and got a PSP [...]

If only we would all take some of the definitions for the word serene like clear and un-obscured and apply them to technology we could achieve a calmer, unruffled existence.
What is the brief for designers? Imagine if it was “Produce the most serene design possible”. Just think about the technology we might be able to [...]

I was re-reading a book I have from 1996 called ‘London Minimum’ by Herbert Ypma when I came across the phrase ‘permitted intrusions’. This related to the objects found in a minimal living space but is equally applicable to other areas of a minimalist lifestyle.
The phrase has resonated in my mind ever since.
Everything I see [...]

For the past few weeks all I could think about is getting a MacBook Air.
I wanted to collect one from my local Apple Store and it took a while for stock to be available.
Last Saturday I collected an 80Gb model. The 24Hr period that followed turned out to be one of absolute highs to absolute [...]

As a fan of Elegant Technology, I waited patiently for the announcements from the Macworld — San Francisco 2008 show. I wasn’t disappointed.
When Steve Jobs unveiled the new MacBook Air – the way he unveiled it – made me grin from ear to ear with delight. It reminded me of the first time I saw [...]

I came across a rather impressive table today. The design is called Thinner and the designer is Tobias Berneth.
As you can see this table is made from a very thin white laminate and in order to engineer it, principles from the aircraft industry were used.
More on the designer can be found here.
From the web-site;
The table [...]