Future Apple Hardware? Four Outrageous Prototypes Revealed!
Posted 12/02/2008 at 5:01am
| by Words by Jon Phillips and Illustrations by Adam Benton
Create Your Own Apple Fauxtotype!
Looking to conceive, design, and present your own Apple fauxtotype? Here are four tips to help get you started.
1 Unless your product’s name starts with a lowercase letter (preferably an “i”) immediately followed by a capital letter, you’re at a disadvantage. You might still have hope if your product name employs an “intercap,” but you’ll still have to deal with the shame of knowing the definition of “intercap.”
2 Look at existing Apple products and let their aesthetics inform your designs. You’ll find that most Apple products are silvery (except when they’re black, white, brightly colored, or semi-opaque), have a few seamlessly integrated buttons (except when they have no buttons whatsoever), and come with an Apple logo (except when the Apple logo is nowhere to be seen).
3 It also pays to write the words “iconographic,” “breathtaking,” “sublime, and “chimichanga” on a piece of paper, and then post that piece of paper in your work area. The first three words will help you channel Jonathan Ive. Chimichanga will remind you to take food breaks. Fauxtotype creation is not for hypoglycemics.
4 Check Apple’s patent filings online, grab the zaniest patent idea, and then employ it in your fauxtotype, making sure to push the product’s feasibility beyond the scope of human reason. Yay! You’re done!
Check out last years radical hardware prototypes, including the Audi iCar!