breaking up is hard to do..

Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:33 am by Tawakalna

..at least for the modular PC concept. Here's the latest take on the idea from Richard Choi/Yanko Design. Looks interesting and I can well imagine the target audience it's going for, but somehow I don't think it's going to be a huge success. Looks great though!

I can remember this idea being floated in the 80's by design studios and some of my ID colleagues, and I always thought that IBM's MCA could be converted to this kind of use, but I s'pose it's needed PoE to make it a viable concept. Having said that, this is just a designer's model, not a real pc afaik.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 8/20/2007 1:36:40 AM

Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:24 am by druid

Perhaps more a style purchase than a practical one I can see the quirky coolness of it. The picture of it in the link you supplied shows the units to be much slimmer than I expected from the front shot in your post.

Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:25 am by Cold_Void

for some reason it reminded me of Cartman's Trapper Keeper devouring all the electronics in town - isn't urban sprawl bad enough without computer sprawl?

Edited by - Cold_Void on 8/20/2007 7:25:52 AM

Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:44 am by Indy11

Power line networking, though.

Not the warm and fuzzy feel you'd think it would be. Have they engineered away networking interference from surge protectors, back-ups and such?

Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:03 am by H.Q. Victor

Theu have been usung that method for years, Ie TV antena wire use, and these days, remote phone hook so you don't have to run more wire.

Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:20 am by Tawakalna

I don't understand why designers have to put the name of a thing in dirty great embossed typeface on the side of everything (and to boot, why is almost everything i-Something these days?)

it's not just a bit of Taw-whimsical whining this time. Designer are ALL educated in Bauhaus-based principles of "form follows function" (I knows cos I was a designer, once, degree and all that nonsense) So why do they need to identify what a thing is from a sans-serif typeface splattered all over it? if form follows function, it doesn't a separate identification.

Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:50 pm by Mr Ed

There Has to be some joke about -- Putting all your ducks ( ducts ? ports ?? ) in a row ?????

Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:08 pm by Striker-1

Yep, next thing you'll see is iTaw doll in stores. $1.95

Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:44 pm by freighter fighter

you're all ducting the issue, i'm serial-sly thinking of busing you out of here.

Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:40 am by druid

@effers: ...never mind.

As for the marketing, I suppose they would have to plug the product with the old three pronged approach of print, audio and video? Sorry!

@Taw: iMeh? For the cynical and ambivalent consumers.

Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:27 am by Indy11

@Taw: iMeh? For the cynical and ambivalent consumers.

How about e-Meh instead? With alternative meaning to counter emo?

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