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...device ostensibly created to be listened to, it is suspiciously good-looking. It's so teensy and glossy and perfect, you want to put it in your mouth like a hard candy. For that, blame Jonathan Ive, 38, the affable Brit who heads Apple's industrial-design department. Ive is about as obsessive-compulsive as you can be without being hospitalized, and his wild enthusiasm for detail is what gives iPods the aura of sleek, otherworldly perfection that has helped make them the quintessential 21st century accessory...
...know you're not going to consciously find these details particularly appealing," he concedes, "but I think it's the fact that we've worried about all of them that makes the product so precious." He begs me to admire the tightness of the reveals--that's industrial-design-speak for the gap where two parts meet--and the finish on the tiny aluminum bottom plate where you plug in the headphones. When I ask him what the finish is--hey, just being polite--he politely declines to tell me. If there's one thing Apple is even more obsessive...
...Pepsi and Paper Mate, have given away iPods and free downloads, but this is the first time a consumer packaged-goods company has promoted its wares using a nonaudio application. And recipe downloading is picking up steam. Chef Emeril Lagasse has launched 1,000 free iPod recipes, Enrique Quintero Design sells 260 recipes from an online PodGourmet database, and hip barflies are lapping up the iBar--downloadable drink recipes from Talking Panda. --By Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago
...proof is in the eye. Michelangelo did not design for electric light. It is the uncleaned two-thirds of the ceiling that needs spotlights to render its mighty forms visible through all the murk. The cleaned areas can be seen clearly by natural daylight, as Michelangelo meant them to be, from the floor 68 feet below. The forms have lost none of their "sculptural" definition, their nobly volumetric quality; instead, they have gained in modulation through the cleaning. Some doubts remain -- about the efficacy, for example, of the Vatican's plans for crowd and atmospheric control: as many...
...Orleans, though, was particularly dire. Officials knew that the least mobile residents lived in the most flood-prone part of town. But they had no solution. "When I asked that question, I got a lot of unsure looks," says Brian Wolshon, an engineer with the L.S.U. team who helped design the evacuation plans with state police and transportation officials...