2.07.2006

Presenting the New Philco Predicta NURBSey Workstation :: Operating System :: Picture Windows 1959


This is just about the grooviest piece of design-in-the-service-of-the-dustbin-of-industrial-design-history that I could find in my travels on the World Wide Web today. This extremely efficient workstation for the retro fetishist on the go go has actually been prototyped and produced by a company called OnomyLabs [ http://www.onomy.com/blue/predicta.html ] for the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley [ http://www.computerhistory.org/ ]. It comes with several accessories--in addition to the mouse, keyboard, and gaming joystick in the picture above--including a gold glitter and pink porcelain meeting-at-my-desk size retractable boomerang ashtray, an automatic hip slenderizing ergonomically incorrect task chair, and, finally, for the working gal who is high of hair, a built-in coif-atomizing 360 degree hair lacquer refresher (activated by a quick flick of the ctrl+h ...h stands for hair! silly!) at the top of the screen. Order one at your neighborhood Western Auto today.

1 comment:

Sam said...

And it's not a Mac...

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