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    May 10, 2007 9:16 AM 5,060
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    Technology Review Nominates its Objects of Desire: Gizmodo says 'Phwoar!'

    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, motorized 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 favorable output." He explains: "Instead of waiting days to see if you took a good photo, you could take it again right away."

    There's a gallery below, and after the jump you can vote for your favorite piece of shiny loveliness.

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    Mine has got to be the Sony Walkman, because I was always in my room making mixtapes as a kid. – Ad Dugdale

    Objects of desire [Technology Review]


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