Remember buttons? The real kind that you had to push? And they made a little click noise? So satisfying! And yet so much work compared to touch screens. I guess the thing I’m typing on has button, but it’s just not the same.

These stools lead my brain in three directions:

1. The store Think Big which used to be in Soho. They had everyday projects there but BIG. Pencils the size of a small tree. Watches the size of grandfather clocks. I wanted it all. Google is telling

2. Bill DeRouchey’s fabulous site about the history of the button: PushClickTouch.

3. The phone keyboard. Rearrange the set up, add in the star and hash keys, and maybe fashion it so that an appropriate tone sounds on each one when you sit down. Put someone on each one and you could orchestrate a mean rendition of Mary Had A Little Lamb.

(via nevver from What the Cool)

(Source: nevver)

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Were cell phones made to look like calculators, or was it just a coinkydink?

All those shapes we learned about in geometry, and all anyone ever wants is a rectangle. I mean, come on.

(joopy via thingsorganizedneatly)

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Once, you bought a calculator. All it did was calculate. Then, you bought a watch that was also a calculator. Then you bought objects that could make calls, send emails, play music and compete in Scrabble. These things could also act as calculators.

Now you can buy a calculator that’s just a calculator…but it LOOKS like the calculators inside the things that can do all the other things! The mind reels.

Real calculators modeled after desktop calculators - Boing Boing

I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did, I’d definitely want it to look like something that I could buy at a yard sale for $1.