Joe Britt hands me his latest creation, a black ball with glittering LED lights around the middle, and implores me to examine it. He wants me to feel how solid and heavy the device is -- about a kilogram -- to experience the smooth operation of its moving parts, and to see the care used in laying out its internal electronics. It is a very analog moment, akin to how I felt buying my first audio receiver. Back then there were three tests: How did the music sound? How did the knobs feel when you turned them? How cool did it look in the store?
Britt wants me to respond this way. In our two hours together, with his partner Matt Hershenson, they bring up the intersection of technology and liberal arts -- as Apple's Steve Jobs liked to call it -- half a dozen times. Once, to make his point, Britt reminds me of record parties, those 1970s gatherings where teenagers lugged their music to friends' houses in milk crates.
By: Fred Vogelstein, Edited by: Ian Steadman
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/28/google-nexus-q
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