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Valentine Notebook: Beautiful Form, No Function

Gadget Lab  Sep 18 09

On the left, the beautiful Olivetti Valentine, a portable typewriter from 1969. On the right, a modern-day re-imagining of the portable typewrite as laptop. Some of the carry-over features look genuinely useful, even today: The carrying handle on the back and the slide-out keyboard for instance. Other design cues from the original are cute, like the [...] Full story...

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New Super-Wide, Super-Fast Nikkor Lenses

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