Just take a look at the iPhone, a product that Apple Inc. will roll out in June of this year in the USA. It’s sleek, it’s sexy, it’s futuristic, and gosh darn it, spacey! I don’t know about you, but to me it looks like it a “PADD” from the old TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994), but has the characteristics of both a Trek “tri-corder” and a real life smart phone like the very popular Palm Treo line. What makes Apple’s iPhone look so space-age sexy is the slick black glass (plastic actually) touch screen and solo belly button on the front. I’d love to ask the designers of this spacey little gadget just what they were influenced by. I’ll bet that old space TV show is to blame. Maybe, it’s a little 20th birthday present to the TNG’s set designers. Who knows? In any case, I wish they’d named it “the Communicator!”
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I'd like to know how badly it'll scratch when I drop it or if I'll break it when I sat on it. Now future design and future durability, thats something.
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