Tuesday 17 February 2009

A computer as books on a shelf

I'd love a computer that looks like books on a shelf. The screen, keyboard and mouse probably don't fit the aesthetic quite properly, but the main casing plus any external devices like modem/router and shared storage device should work. The small bits could be shrouded in book covers, and if I were ambitious enough, I could rearrange the actual innards of the computer to fit in a series of books, such as a multi-volume dictionary or small set of encyclopaedias. I would probably pick the book covers to match the device contents, too, like a self-help "better communication" guide for the modem, "Improve your memory" for the external storage and so on.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Or maybe they should look like generic old leather-bound volumes.
PPS - That seems to fit the vision a bit better.

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