what are your industrial design favorites?

[Kundroc]

Very clean design of an integrated amplifier: Audionet Humboldt

 

[Wes]

ok, I call bad design

the sides would make better heat sinks

 

[Kundroc]

ok, I call bad design

the sides would make better heat sinks

The design is even more complex than that. The heat sinks are inside and not exposed.

 

[Harmonie]

Very clean design of an integrated amplifier: Audionet Humboldt

Very nice.
Seems it has a toaster function on top as well !

 

[Feanor]

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I used one of those for years -- still might be using it if it had remote control

 

[pavuol]

SONY XDR-S41D (portable DAB+/FM radio)

 

[Feanor]

cameras -- also many faves, but I am particularly partial to my son's Leica IIIf.

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Takes nice piccies, too.

https://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com/search?q=Leica+III

Better yet, IMO, the Leica M3. I briefly owned one: an exquisite all-mechanical, all metal camera.
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[Mike-48]

Very nice.
Seems it has a toaster function on top as well !

It's actually for a different purpose . . . cooking bacon.

 

[mhardy6647]

Better yet, IMO, the Leica M3. I briefly owned one: an exquisite all-mechanical, all metal camera.
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My son has a taste for the vintage -- as a quick perusal of his (now sadly somewhat un-tended) photoblog will confirm.

 

[Dmitri]

My son has a taste for the vintage -- as a quick perusal of his (now sadly somewhat un-tended) photoblog will confirm.

My father shot with the top Kodak Retina for years, and I now have it. I think it finally died and he bought a Nikkormat, which...though I believe was kind of a budget Nikon...still a beautiful camera.
What’s the website? I’d love to peruse.... ; )

 

[Dmitri]

And speaking of vintage, I always thought my Dad’s old straight 8 Bell and Howell projector a thing of beauty...with the fins for heat dissipation and the exposed shutter/ lens mechanism. Family movie night = fond memories....

 

[mhardy6647]

My father shot with the top Kodak Retina for years, and I now have it. I think it finally died and he bought a Nikkormat, which...though I believe was kind of a budget Nikon...still a beautiful camera.
What’s the website? I’d love to peruse.... ; )

oh, I think I've posted it before: http://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com/
His math prof site, conversely, is: https://doctorhardy.wordpress.com/

 

[Dmitri]

oh, I think I've posted it before: http://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com/
His math prof site, conversely, is: https://doctorhardy.wordpress.com/

Thanks! Now that I think of it, I might have seen it somewhere in the photography section...Cheers!

 

[Vini darko]

My favorite thing on two wheels.

 

[eddantes]

Well - if "two wheels" is a factor - we must mention Vespa GS 160

 

[pavuol]

1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupé”

 

[JeffS7444]

This Nikon SP is one of my luckier scores, sold to me cheaply by a collector who knew exactly what it was, but who wanted it gone. Shot on film using Bronica ETRSI medium format camera.

 

[JeffS7444]

I paid about $100 for this Leica 3F camera body, but repairs cost considerably more! Though the design was dated by the late 1950s, I think it's ergonomics compare favorably to prewar and early postwar 35 mm cameras and it remains a pretty good compact shooter.

 

[JeffS7444]

Nothing much to tell you here: Modern product currently available from Feestyle Photo (I like the packaging).

 

[mhardy6647]

I told you guys this story, right?
I use this in the grad school biotechnology course I teach to illustrate my idea of "innovation" (a buzzword which I dislike vigorously, due to its embrace and misuse by businesses and industries who, at their cores, are as anti-innovation as can be).

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/25/13048668/vanmoof-shipping-damages-dutch-bicycle-design

To reduce shipping damages, a Dutch bike company printed a television on their boxes