Ugly iPod Docks, Shapeshifting Cars, Dead Consoles and more

Ugly/Beautiful Tube Amp for iPod [Cult of Mac] This “Music Cocoon” cocoons only revolting design and pseudoscientific ideas about what makes something sound good. Leander Kahney wonders if it’s so ugly, it’s beautiful… GM Gears Up Shape-Shifting Cars [Autopia] GM is set to make metal alloys that change form to fold with crash impacts. Reported […]

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Ugly/Beautiful Tube Amp for iPod [Cult of Mac]
This "Music Cocoon" cocoons only revolting design and pseudoscientific ideas about what makes something sound good. Leander Kahney wonders if it's so ugly, it's beautiful...

GM Gears Up Shape-Shifting Cars [Autopia]
GM is set to make metal alloys that change form to fold with crash impacts. Reported by John Gartner.

GDC: Game Boy This Close To Dead [Game|Life]
2007's roster of forthcoming GBA games: "Summer Shrek the Third; Activision."

Sirius CEO on the XM Merger [Listening Post]
Eliot Van Buskirk listens in to CEO mel Karmazin's address to the House Subcommittee on telecommunications and the internet. "Things are getting hot and heavy."

Return of the mini computer [Epicenter]
Vogelstein on the inexplicably hype-gathering Flipstart, a bloated, ugly UMPC. I like his idea of an alternative.