A visual and cultural tour from the chunky, earnest attempts at 90s ‘minimalism’ to today’s svelte, almost invisible devices - what changed, what we lost, and what designers should steal back.
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Should Dell mine the gold of its past - beige boxes, chrome logos and reassuringly clunky keyboards - or keep sprinting… more
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retrogaming A hands-on comparison of the best TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine) emulators - what they do well, where the… more
