Beige boxes may still be the norm for lots of desktop computer equipment, but people have been fooling around with design ever since they began making machines. While computer design has, by and large, stuck to the basic need for a protective enclosure, there have been some outstanding ideas and some duds over the years. Where will it end? With chips becoming smaller and faster, new materials littering lab benches worldwide, and wireless communications pervasive, computers are going to start showing up in odd guises.
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The Shapes of Things To Come
Posted by: David Halperin February 21, 2004 02:00 AMBeige boxes may still be the norm for lots of desktop computer equipment, but people have been fooling around with design ever since they began making machines. While computer design has, by and large, stuck to the basic need for a protective enclosure, there have been some outstanding ideas and some duds over the years. Where will it end? With chips becoming smaller and faster, new materials littering lab benches worldwide, and wireless communications pervasive, computers are going to start showing up in odd guises.