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The Touchy Remix from Intactlab is an interestingly-designed, table-like computer with a curved fiberglass base and 40 inch touchscreen (1366 x 768 resolution). Powered by a fully-integrated Mac mini, it also has four USB ports and an optional iPhone dock. You can get all Touchy feely with this video demonstration.

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In a recent interview with silicon.com, Asus chairman Jonney Shih discussed the company’s plans for slate PCs, netbooks, and smartbooks. In the spirit of their Waveface concepts shown at CES, Shih also predicted future netbooks and smartbooks will continue to reduce in scale, becoming wearable (e.g. the Apple-like wannabe concept design shown above).

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Via Cult of Mac is a gallery of Apple mouse designs through the years, documented by Flickr user Raneko. Shown are the early über-blocky Mac Plus mouse, the Bondi Blue iMac, carpal tunnel-inducing “hockey puck” mouse, and many other Apple user input devices.

xcool

The X-cool Calculator is designed to fool your kids into thinking math is fun! Clearly, only an idiot would fall for this gimmick. In other news, after 14 hours straight of game play I’m about to beat the final boss, -0.492381231874!

realcalc

A designer at Mintpass has posted his designs for real world versions of the calculator application from Windows and OS X. Amazingly-clever and accurate representations (with back panel designs that are equally slick). I wonder if the former version can go BSOD for ultra realism…



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