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Apple’s Biggest Product Flops That You May Not Even Know About. The 12 Worst Apple Products Of All Time - Page 12 of 14 - Business Insider. Rblg - Entries from Monday, November 15. 2010. Le projet Cybersyn. Great Industrial Design From the 60’s and 70’s. This post was written by Harold.

Great Industrial Design From the 60’s and 70’s

Seeing what I can learn every day. Instead of companies looking at Apple for designs to copy maybe they should look deeper into the past to see what great design looked like in the past. You know when technology wasn’t strong and companies really had to deal with limitations. It seems that Apple has done it so it only makes sense for the competition to do the same. A Brief History Of Coffeemakers, 1600-Present. These days, our coffee is usually spat from a black plastic machine with buttons and lights and gurgling noises and delivered in millions of identical paper cups from Starbucks.

A Brief History Of Coffeemakers, 1600-Present

Modern coffeemakers are practical, but not usually pretty. Once upon a time, though, whimsical contraptions of floral ceramic or embossed brass delivered our caffeine fixes, complete with spouts and spirit-burners and stacked glass vessels. Such gorgeous old-school machines are the subject of Coffee Makers: Macchine da Caffe, a 776-page encyclopedia of brewing contraptions and their history by Italian coffee fanatics Enrico Maltoni and Mauro Carli. “I collect coffeemakers, and I wanted to know how time has changed how they work and how they look,” Maltoni tells Co.Design. The book, he says, represents two years of research, from “the origins of coffee machines all the way up to today. Old Inventions You Wont Believe Happened. From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be.

Editors’ note: The following is an excerpt from Design Forward: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change (Arnoldsche Art Publishers), by Hartmut Esslinger.

From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be

In 1982, Apple was in its sixth year of existence, and Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder and Chairman, was twenty-eight years old. Steve, intuitive and fanatical about great design, realized that the company was in crisis. With the exception of the aging Apple IIe, the company’s products were failing against IBM’s PCs.

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FAMOSAS PISTOLAS. Infographic: The History Of Audio Equipment. A prominent sci-fi writer once told me that, as prescient as they’d been, he and his peers had missed one big tech trend: Miniaturization.

Infographic: The History Of Audio Equipment

And they really did miss it. Because as you examine Pop Chart Lab’s latest mega print of 219 sonic devices across history, The Advance of Audio Apparatuses, it's obvious that technology has been getting smaller for a long time. “Miniaturization seemed to happen with every major leap forward in audio technology; cassette players gave way to the walkman, CD players led to the Discman, and now thousands of songs can be played from a square no bigger than your palm,” the team tells Co.Design. But while most of us think miniaturization was solely driven by portability, that would be wrong. Some systems became tiny for tiny's sake, the team points out. The Best CEO-Designer Duos, Part I Of II. The Infinite Allure Of Coffee, Captured On Film. Brandon Loper, Alabama native, never really liked coffee.

The Infinite Allure Of Coffee, Captured On Film

At least not until college, when he zealously took up the drink and committed himself to increased caffeinated levels ever since. Apple's Untold History Reveals Why The iPhone 5C Will Be In Color. In 1998, at a special Apple event in Cupertino, then-interim CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the product that would herald Apple’s comeback: the iMac.

Apple's Untold History Reveals Why The iPhone 5C Will Be In Color

But as Jobs went backstage, he wasn’t fist-pumping to one of the most triumphant reveals in the company’s history. He was bummed. “I love the iMac, but we just delivered it in the wrong color,” Jobs lamented. The issue of color has long plagued Apple, Fast Company learned from speaking to scores of insiders for our Apple oral history, yet it’s proven one of the most powerful maneuvers in Apple’s design playbook. An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2004. If Apple is known for one thing, it's impeccable design.

An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2004

If Apple is known for two things, it's impeccable design shrouded in a culture of secrecy. So Fast Company spent months collecting more than 50 interviews with the faces behind the 37 years of Apple's iconic products to tell the untold stories behind Apple's seemingly effortless "signature" of simplicity. This is part four in the series.

The third-generation iPod, released in April 2003, was thinner and featured a new navigation wheel. At the same time, Jobs unveiled the iTunes Store. MagSafe For Headphones Is Here (And Patents Have Already Killed It) How many times have you plugged your earbuds into your phone and then accidentally caught the cord on a door handle, or the edge of a table, only to either rip the headphone cord in two or send your smartphone skittering across the floor?

MagSafe For Headphones Is Here (And Patents Have Already Killed It)

For that matter, how many times have your headphones clotheslined you? Probably a lot. It's a common occurrence, one that is the main selling point of wireless headphones. But wireless headphones will never sound as good as the alternatives that string their sound through a cord, and they require charging and batteries. Where is the better, safer headphone cord we all deserve? How 500 Years Of Weird Condiment History Designed The Heinz Ketchup Bottle. What do you think about when you see a glass bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup on a table?

How 500 Years Of Weird Condiment History Designed The Heinz Ketchup Bottle

If you’re like most people, you probably don’t pay very close attention to it. Breaking Bad Artifacts Trace Walter White's Transformation From Mr. Chips To Scarface. The pink teddy bear.

Breaking Bad Artifacts Trace Walter White's Transformation From Mr. Chips To Scarface

Barbara Miller knew she had to have it, and the curator kept an eye out for it as she searched a Los Angeles warehouse full of Breaking Bad wardrobe and props about two months ago, culling items for an exhibit dedicated to the television series at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Do Bigger Desks Make People Dishonest? We know that people in large corner offices sometimes do bad things. Could the size of the space actually be one cause? If you’re skeptical about a link between office size and dishonest behavior (and we were), take a look at a new study from Columbia, MIT, Northwestern, Harvard and Berkeley. Across four experiments, it finds that certain expansive environments make people feel more powerful, and that this sense of power can lead to dishonesty. How To Revolutionize Recycling: Cashfree Refunds From Smart Reverse Vending Machines. What if every bottle or can you recycled not only gave you an instant refund deposited into the account of your choosing, but also immediately informed you of the positive impact its recycling had on the environment?

That’s the idea behind Greenbean Recycle, the brainchild of Zambia-born civil engineer Shanker Sahai. His innovative technological approach to recycling cans, bottles, and other is predicated on the belief that by showing people the impact of their actions in real time (and by giving them direct deposits), he can inspire big shifts in behavior. As a child growing up in Botswana with a father who built waste water treatment plants, Sahai always had an environmental bug. The Eco-Friendly Car Americans Aren't Buying. For eco-conscious drivers not ready to take a Tesla-style electric leap, the big news this August is Volkswagen's Golf TDI BlueMotion. At 106 mpg, it's an even more eco-friendly version of the Golf TDI--but it isn't sold in America. VW sees more potential in Europe, where gas prices are double those in America, because consumers are more willing to pay up front for efficiency. The Road To Resilience: How Unscientific Innovation Saved Marlin Steel.

The American economy has some really quirky corners--places so esoteric or tucked away we hardly notice them. In 1998, Drew Greenblatt bought one of those corners--a company called Marlin Steel that specialized in a single product: wire bagel baskets, which bagel stores use to display their wares. Marlin had the market to itself. Why Lego Minifigures Have A Hole In Their Heads. Óculos famosos. Algumas celebridades e personagens são tão intimamente associados aos seus óculos que só de olhá-los já os identificamos. Who’s Buying Luxury Watches? Heineken’s Lost Plan To Build Houses Out Of Beer Bottles. Julius Richard Petri, creador de universos artificiales. Julius Richard Petri es el responsable de que hoy el hombre tenga en su mano el poder de crear en un doble disco de cristal un universo artificial y ser testigo de milagros como, por ejemplo, el naciemiento de un pollo en un huevo . Julius Richard Petri , médico y microbiólogo, ideó en una época en la que el estudio de las bacterias resultaba una tarea casi imporible un sencillo método -más bien un recipiente- para poder crear un campo de cultivo puro y fácilmente visible: las populares placas que llevan su nombre, las placas Petri.

Hasta el invento de Julius Richard Petri , en 1877, resultaba casi imposible establecer un microclima de bacterias que permitiese una óptima observación de su comportamiento. Los microorganismos se cultivaban en un caldo líquido y acababan, inevitablemente, contaminados e inservibles, y los pocos avances en este campo caminaban hacia métodos engorrosos y difíciles de llevar a cabo que nunca revelaban nada claro.

¿Es el 3D una amenaza a la placa de Petri? Horacio Pagani (auto executive) SWISS ARMY KNIFE Victorinox Factory - See How Its Made FULL HQ EPISODE Megafactories. Victorinox Swiss Army Knife - History & Factory Tour. Swiss Army knife. Victorinox "Huntsman" Swiss Army knife with knife chain and belt clip The Swiss Army knife ( French : couteau suisse , German : Schweizer Offiziersmesser : "Swiss officer's knife", Italian : Coltellino svizzero ) is a brand of pocket knife or multi-tool manufactured by Victorinox AG and Wenger SA .

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