One industrious modder decided that the bet use for his newly acquired Mac Classic was to make it into this personal jukebox. After ripping out the CRT monitor, he was able to squeeze in a new LCD display, 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, extra 750GB drive and power supply. The only external modifications included expanding the disc drive for CDs/DVDs and adding a tiny opening for an IR receiver. OS X was modified to automatically load FrontRow upon booting, completing retro functional sweetness. Bonus pic:
If you can’t actually have designer furniture in your hepcat bachelor pad, now you can possess a veritable Greatest Hits of Chair Design in 1/12 scale with the Masterpiece Chairs of the World Collection. That oughta fit in even cubby-hole apartments. The little seats are highly detailed, and some of them have removable cushions. That chaise lounge even reclines a bit.
These miniature chairs are available in six volumes, each group costing between $38 and $50. The models don’t have much practicality, but they just look cool. Check out the gallery to get an idea of their scale. – Charlie White
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Masterpiece chairs of the world collection (Japanese translation) [Rakuten, via TFTS]
Technology Review has rounded up a bunch of objects that it feels are design classics from the past 30 or so years and got a bunch of industrial designers to talk about them. And you’ve gotta admit they’re right—on some of the candidates, at least. First up is the Polaroid SX-70, which dates back to 1972.
Polaroid’s first fully automatic, motorised camera was an instant design classic. Detailed with tan leather, it folded into a rectangle the size of a paperback book. Andrew Logan, principal designer at Frog Design, admires it for the “immediacy of a favourable output.” He explains: “Instead of waiting days to see if you took a good photo, you could take it again right away.”
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– Ad Dugdale
Objects of desire [Technology Review]
