More on Pentagram’s Litl from Fast Company (one new revelation that I didn’t realize- it has no hard drive!):
It’s baffling that no one’s really overhauling laptop design. They’re getting thinner and smaller, while capabilities and processing power swell, but the user interface stays exactly the same. Litl, a brand-new laptop, isn’t going to change the world—but it’s proof of what a set of excellent designers can do, if given a bit of breathing room.
The design pedigree is flagrantly high-caliber: One Laptop Per Child designer Yves Beharcreated the case; Abbott Miller designed the logo; and Lisa Strausfeld, our recent Master of Design, did the GUI, alongside Christian Marc Schmidt. There’s a joke about Voltron in there somewhere.
