2005 IDEA Awards 54
prostoalex writes "Every year Industrial Design Excellence Awards are given to the products in such categories as Business & Industrial Products, Computer Equipment, Consumer Products, Design Explorations, Design Strategy, Digital Media & Interfaces, Environments, Furniture, Medical & Scientific Equipment, Packaging & Graphics, Research, Student Designs, Transportation. Business Week is running a 158-page slideshow that features 2005 IDEA recipients."
Netgear (Score:2)
Fugly (Score:2)
Re:Netgear (Score:1)
No, the Mac mini is not modelled after the Sonos System. At least, not deliberately. Rather, it's in the pattern of the iPod mini, which started the fashion of anodised aluminum verticals wrapping around white plastic horizontals with rounded vertical edges and unrounded horizontal edges. As the latest iMac adopts many design aspects from the full-size iPod, so too does the Mac mini mean to look like a fat iPod mini.
I think the Sonos System di
bleh Netgear (Score:1)
Anybody else.. (Score:3, Funny)
Its name is IKEA goddamnit! (Score:2)
I wouldn't have been too surprised if IKEA would be giving design awards though (it has been widely spreading design furniture to a wider audience) , if it wasn't for that the company is as cheap (as in won't spend money on something that's not entirely necessary) as possible. Ingvar Kamprad has even once said "If I'm worried some one will copy our designs? Nah. If someone thinks they can beat us on price, they are very welcome to give it a try..." :)
Re:Anybody else.. (Score:1)
Re:Anybody else.. (Score:2)
Was anybody else wondering why swedish furniture companies were giving out awards when they first read the headline?
Actually, I wondered why a well-known Java IDE was giving out awards...
A few good ones... (Score:3, Funny)
The item earning this fine praise - a showerhead! [businessweek.com]
Re:A few good ones... (Score:5, Funny)
This research enabled designers to have a deeper understanding of the many aspects of the showering experience, including extensive observations of people showering
Who would have though that watching women soaping their breasts in the shower was research. Ha eat that all you wankers who called me a voyeuristic perv, I am officially a scientist. The thing now is to get a grant to further my obesession, I mean research.
Re:A few good ones... (Score:1)
Re:A few good ones... (Score:2)
I do not know if that was intentional or not, but it sure as hell was funny! ^_^
Re:A few good ones... (Score:1)
Re:A few good ones... (Score:1)
and if that wasn't enough they add a splash of business lingo to the mix. capital.
does everything have to look smooth, shiny, and modern? apparently it does if you're "innovative"
sorry, i'm a big fan of plain and purposeful things. when they said indu
Mac Mini Powerful? (Score:2, Insightful)
That is your first mistake (Score:2, Funny)
That is the first mistake. You are not supposed to plug anything into it. You certainly don't want to sully the pristine and elegant experience with such things as I/O.
Re:Mac Mini Powerful? (Score:2)
I have one of the base models (1.25Ghz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD) that I use for a small home server. I had thought that it would be dreadfully slow compared to my Powerbook, which is the very top of the line (or, well, was the top of the line).
I was pleasantly suprised to find it was perfect for web, email, and word processing. It's even fast enough to use iPhoto.
So while it's not powerful per se, it's good enough for almost everybody.
Matrix-looking monitor (Score:2, Interesting)
The description writes it out as jellyfish looking, all I can think of is the connectors that plug into peoples backs in the matrix
Re:Matrix-looking monitor (Score:1)
Can you imagine waking up one night and seeing it skittering under your bed? It'd be just like that bit from Aliens.
what about ... (Score:1)
OK (Score:1)
some of these sell quite sucessfully
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/06/idea2005/
IDEA Awards (Score:1)
The toilet! (Score:1)
What a sleek looking throne, I'm sure everybody here is jealous. No tank? Doesn't plug? CAN BE PLACED ANYWHERE????? Sounds like my dream toilet.
Re:The toilet! (Score:1)
How's your dream toilet looking like now?
Re:The toilet! (Score:1)
Re:The toilet! (Score:1)
Become one with the Borg (CPAP) (Score:2)
OK, I've been totally unfair to this product; anything that helps people to breathe and sleep is a good thing, even if it makes you look monstrous. I just wish the designer was less inspired by the work of [biwook.net] H. R. Giger
self watering flowerpot (Score:2)
Re:self watering flowerpot (Score:1)
Was that necessary? (Score:4, Funny)
Damned marketerspeak! (Score:2)
This product family of commercial HVAC sensors and room controllers was designed in response to the company's identified need for a new product line that conveys quality, reliability and accuracy and is suitable for use in both the American and European markets and a wide array of commercial applications. Following extensive research, the design
The most beautiful design... (Score:1)
Obviously they havent heard of quality at all. (Score:1)
Design is more than how pretty something is. (Score:1)
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/06/idea2005/s ource/109.htm [businessweek.com]
I was at the design museum, and while there's definitely some awesome things there, this staircase bothered me. It looks cool, but the steps are very dark, and I watched several people trip on their way up in the few minutes I was in