Tag: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

We've all, far too often, reached into our backpacks, briefcases or man purses to retrieve our earbuds, only to find their wires intertwined in some sinister perversion of the Gordian Knot. As one of those ubiquitous irritations of modern daily life, earbud entanglement has become a Gordian Knot in and of itself, leading any number of bright-eyed industrial designers to try and decisively untie ...

Have you ever taken the time to notice the prevalence of rectangles with rounded corners in the world of technology? They're everywhere: your PC casing, the GUI on your OS, your iPod, etc. They even find plenty of uses outside of technology, including the no-parking sign, which, according to legend, inspired Steve Jobs and designer Bill Atkinson when developing the Macintosh interface. Keith ...

We here at Switched have always been proponents of geek chic, so we were a bit surprised to come across something that made us really examine exactly how far we'd go in order to truly geek out. The USB tie (yup, seriously) is your dad and grandpa's standard tie except for one very obvious addition: a functional USB input that sticks out of the bottom. At present, the tie is merely one of the many ...