Tag: UGLY

With mobile devices like the iPhone and Palm Pre continually raising the cool-design bar, it's easy to forget that there's a lot of junk out there. PC World recently put together a list of the ugliest and lamest designs to ever access a cell tower. The list accumulates the weird, bulky, outrageous, awkward, and just plain unusable failures that make cell phone recycling programs crucial. The ...

If the Acer Aspire One netbook above makes you feel uncomfortable, even angry, then you're probably not a Japanese school-girl. Hell, even if you are we hope you have the good sense not to paste stuffed animals, taffeta, and frills to your Atom-based netbook. That's what UMPCs are for. ...

Oh, there are so many ways we try to put a good spin on things that are flawed or unattractive. "He has a good personality." (Too short.) "She has a great sense of humor." (Cross-eyed.) "This apartment is certainly cozy." (Tiny.) "It gets great mileage." (A '72 Gremlin.) And then there's this: "It's certainly shiny." Yes, that's the right description for what could be the ugliest Nintendo DS ...

The PC Mod scene -- essentially Custom PCs that enthusiasts either build from scratch or modify with significant cosmetic alterations -- is as bustling and fanatical as the custom car scene. But with so much individuality and creativity applied to otherwise boring PC towers, some real doozies are bound to emerge. Which is why every so often some Web site or magazine like Wired picks what it ...