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The Ottoman PC
R3 writes "Looks like Intel is trying to come up with some sort of iMac-like PC - "for home" and this is the best they could some up with is the
Ottoman PC. " Here are some more pictures . The sad thing is that I think its cool. I'd like a PIII in the arm of my sofa too
please.
10) "Uh, I just had a rather large movement and I can't flush the Ottoman."
9) "Where do I put my feet when I'm using my footrest?"
8) "You mean I have to plug my footstool IN?"
7) "I put my Pop-Tarts in there 5 minutes ago and they're still not ready.
6) "What do you mean I can't kick my footstool?"
5) "I can only fit one beer into my 5X Drink Vender Drive"
4) "I'm sitting on the stool and typing with the keyboard, but I can't see what I'm typing."
3) "There's something loose in my stool."
2) "The sofa-bed crashed while grandma was sleeping, and now we can't get her out."
1) "Will tough actin' Tinactin clean all my viruses?"
Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
.. and it looks like a waffle maker.
"Waffle Inside"
So, can we get a widescreen LCD display on a coffee table to go with that?
Speaking of concept computers, this still beats anything Intel has come up (of course, Intel Inside could bring new meaning to that concept....)
BTW, didn't Intel come up with an Aztec-like pyramid-looking computer some time ago? I was digging around for it yesteday and couldn't find it.
everyone's saying it's a toilet, but really, the more i look at it, the more i disagree:
i think it looks like a waffle iron.
actually what it _really_ looks like is "George Foreman's Lean Mean Grilling Machine". If you've ever seen one of those, then the ottoman pc looks _exactly_ like that. only thicker.
either way i think we should praise intel for coming up with their own slightly scary "creative" design instead of stealing apple's slightly scary "creative" design. Although it looks like it takes after the imac in one way: a horrible keyboard. except that the keyboard's built in, so if you want an extended or DVORAK one then too bad.. i may be wrong though. i can't really see from that tiny picture. And doesn't it seem like a circular monitor would waste a lot of potential screen space? well, whatever.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
I have a snooty magazine of home decor for the tasteless and independently wealthy that features *wooden* monitors. You know, the case is wooden. They come in birch, cherry, oak. Matching keyboards (the keys weren't wood) and mice (just the part under your palm was wood.)
They were actually pretty slick.
And you know, if you have a big old house straight from the early 1900s, a computer sittin' around looks...well...dumb. 'Course, I'd rather have mine disguised as a mahogany Victorian highboy, but that's just me.
Consigned to flames of woe.
my parents used to have this battery powered ash-trasy that sucked in the smoke from their cigarettes. It looked suspiciously like this thing, only a lot smaller.
I'm sure this thing, give the larger size, will suck a lot more.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
HEY! Intel is NOT inside this thing!!!!!
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isn't always as easy as you might hope, if this is anything to go by.
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Xenu loves you!
An AC wrote "Why stop there?" and pointed out that Intel still hasn't explored *all* of the possibilities for stuffing PCs into household objects. True enough.
... I dunno, toasters, instead of cars? How innovative that would be, eh? I'm not saying all cars should look alike or their evolution has finished, or even that I don't like radical new designs. But *any* designs should match the function of the device - house, appliance, whatever.
A few more places for them to start squashing them:
-Trashcans
- halloween costumes
- fake fireplaces
- pillows,
- cupboards,
- pie safes,
- andirons
- headboards
... I mean, boy, Intel, aren't you worried that your household object computers aren't stupid enough yet?
I saw a talk given at the U Texas art school (through the dept. of design by a guy from RISD) a few years ago. The guy reminded me of the Design (yes, big D, because we're talking High Art) equivalent of Quentin Tarantino. And you like Tarantino's personality, imagine for a moment that you are annoyed by it instead.
One of the designs he showed had me laughing to the annoyance of those around me - it was a DESK that was also a computer, and the hard drive was in ONE OF THE LEGS OF THE DESK!
To what end? To what end?!
The word "contrived" comes to mind. Wby don't we start to see some cars, say, that look like
That's my rant.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Forgot to link to the fact sheet
"...toilet."
Words _fail_ me o_O
Short Intel, now!
>For whatever reason, Intel doesn't understand that to sell a good looking consumer computer, it still has to be recognizable as a computer.
<sarcasm>c'mon! I'm sure they know far better than any of us *exactly* how good looking consumer computers have to look nothing like traditional computers! After all, they spent $millions on consumer focus groups and marketing consultants to come to this conclusion!</sarcasm>
Yeah, their customer focus demographic was effeminate cappucino junkies, coincidentally the same compositionas the marketing consultancy staff.
Note to design team:Ottomans will come into contact with feet. :-)