The speakers aren't obvious: the woofer faces the floor, and the apertures are on the side. All the sound reaches the listener indirectly. The speakers range from $25,000 to a whopping $200,000 if you have the money to do a good deed and stimulate the economy, all by yourself.

[NBS Electronics via Born Rich]

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]

To recap, the Zen V has a built-in FM tuner, a 1.5-inch color OLED display, and a colorful exterior. It should be available in Singapore—Creative's home country—in October for around $270 USD. When the player hits the US, you can probably expect it to go down to a more iPod Nano-like $249. – Jason Chen

Press Release [Creative via epizenter]

We love our GPS system—it's has saved our asses from having to go through the crack-whore district of SF more times than we can count. Our only complaint: not letting us change our destination while we're in motion. Solution? The Novogo V Series with voice activation. The voice activation lets you speak your destination (with your mouth), and the GPS will automatically change your way-point and calculate the shortest distance/fastest route.

The bad news, this Novogo V series is only available with UK and Europe maps for now, but hopefully that will change soon. There's also a Real Time Traffic Message Channel option for live traffic updates, and six different colors to match your car's interior. The unit starts at £279 ($513). – Jason Chen

Product Page [Novogo via Tech Digest]

The Zen V Plus is a flash based player available in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB sizes. The differences between the Zen V Plus and the Zen V are FM radio, video playback, and $30. That's it. You're better off with the Plus for that negligible price difference.

Its 1.5 inch screen is bright and colorful, but not bright enough to be visible in really bright light. The Zen V Plus is small and rounded and can fit on an armband easily—something the iPod Nano is known for in exercise circles. The player supports MP3, WAV, WMA, Audible, MPEG-4, WMV and DivX, the last two iPod Video does NOT support. The FM tuner, line in recording, and 20 hour battery life make this one a winner. The battery was actually rated at 15 hours! When was the last time you saw actual life longer than the rated life specified by the manufacturer?

Here's the gist of it. If you're looking for an alternative to the iPod Nano, here it is. The Zen V Plus looks great, has a bunch of features and accessories, and excellent battery life. The optional arm band costs $29.99 and colored cases cost $19.99 each. – Jason Chen

Creative Zen V Plus [CNET]