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Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2004
burgburgburg writes "The IDEA 2004 awards (Industrial Design Excellence Awards) have been announced. Apple won 2 Gold (for the iPod Mini and the G5), a Silver (for the iSight) and a Bronze (for the Apple Wireless Keyboard). Some comments: 'Like a modern touchstone the iPod Mini is a product people will love to hold. The designers skillfully integrated the satin aluminum case with flush controls and a simple touchpad interface to create a jewel-like piece of technology.' - Monty Montague, IDSA, Design Principal, BOLT. 'The G5 is impressive with visually lithe qualities and a host of thoughtful and innovative user features wrapped in aluminum. Its well-engineered technical features, such as its cooling system and internal component mounts, are honestly and elegantly executed. The G5's aesthetic is a pure and graceful expression of Apple's philosophical precept of leaving no detail un-designed. This is what results when engineering and design play nice with each other.' - Christopher Alviar, IDSA, Principal, CG/A"
You can use it on a PC - but note that the windows key (command key) is out of place.
You might need a keyboard remapper kext to remedy tht and might want to take mineral oil to the two keys that are out of place.
It's the same thing though as PC keyboards.
I use an Eluminx glow keyboard that is PS2 with my Macs. The Windows key is on the keyboard and I just did what I told you above.
The Apple bluetooth keyboard even works with my Ericsson cellphone.
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If you're interested in Apple's corporate design, there's an excellent book called Apple Design: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group--
8 88 001259/103-7823380-3150263?v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1
I found it while ago at a bookstore and it's quite good.
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this makes using the keys on a small phone easy for western hands that are often bigger.
There is the slight issue of my thumb covering the screen. Hard to SMS when I can't see. And I do have a small phone, a T100, so I would know.
As the Apple *wired* Keyboard and Mouse work just fine with most USB-supporting operating systems (the Apple button gets turned into a Windows button, etc.) without any need for additional drivers, I doubt it'd be different for the Bluetooth versions.
On the other hands, the FireWire iSight does currently, AFAIK, *not* work with other operating systems.
What about the hammer moving the center of gravity towards the head of the hammer? Or the curved top so nail removal has a smaller chance of damaging the surface?
The hammer may not be worth its price, but don't say they did not improve functionality when designing this hammer.
When the whole site has been designed with flash, as is the case here, you can only bookmark the page that calls the flash file, not a page within the "flash site". In essence you can only bookmark the homepage.
The indexing engines cannot follow links internal to a flash sites so the content that is in the file will not be indexed. Therefore a web site designed as a flash file cannot be found through a search. And when it will be found through a search (whenever the clueless designers will have win, should be any day now), getting at the content will remain a problem because you can only point at the "home page" (see above).
You could also say the same for pages in Mandarin, or say the same for writing web pages on grains of rice. I never mentionned CSS as an alternative (which it isn't).
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