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Soul of a New Mobile Machine

May 2007

From conception to buzz, from three-way spring to soft-touch paint: inside the design of a multimedia communications gadget. By David Talbot

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The Secret of Apple Design
The inside (sort of) story of why Apple’s industrial-design machine has been so successful.
Categorized in Uncategorized
Help Me Redesign the Web
The first epoch of Web design is over; from now on, Web pages will be as attractive as print–but more interactive.
Categorized in 17037
Planning for a Climate-Changed World
As the global picture grows grimmer, states and cities are searching for the fine-scale predictions they need to prepare for emergencies–and to keep the faucets running.
Categorized in 17035
Sequencing in a Flash
A new generation of DNA-sequencing machines is opening up whole new areas of genomic research. Already, researchers are unraveling how modern humans differ from Neanderthals and devising more precise tests for cancer.

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