[BNM] Why does stuff look so bad?

[Chris Billett]

Œcos no-one realised Porsche would be busy making external hard drives?

I feel your pain.

On 12/02/2008 23:04, "Tom Dussek (Hotmail)" <tomdussek at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In the same vain as "Why haven't I got the hover shoes I was promised in
> the 70s" discussions, how is it that technology has been so badly served
> by industrial/product design? My (incomplete) list of stuff that is
> functionally amazing (or is at least a realisation of what the future
> promised) but looks TERRIBLE:
> 
> Dect/cordless phones
> Video door entry systems - especially at the handset end
> Freeview boxes
> Most DAB radios
> 
> Erm.....
> 
> Actually, I'm mostly p*ssed about the video entry systems.
> 
> Tom Dussek