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Guess the design year? (designer was ahead of his time by 30 years?)

CuriousOneCuriousOne Posts: 931
edited 2013-09-14 16:59 in General Discussion
Here's the image:

[img][/img]http://files.adme.ru/files/news/part_39/395255/15.jpg

Cordless phone, TV set, tv remote, laptop, laptop speakers, tv speakers (round balls), mouse, cd storage box.

The year is: 11111000010

But guess if you can.

A little hint, tv sets, and laptops of that era looked like this:

[img][/img]http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ibm5140-small.jpg

[img][/img]http://thevollmerfamily.com/MajorMom/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/old-tv-set.jpg

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-09-11 14:07
    Must have been 1986...

    1 or 0? :)
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-09-11 14:24
    erco wrote: »
    Must have been 1986...

    1 or 0? :)
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2013-09-11 20:16
    Russian and American designer, Dmitry Azrikan

    He was right on all counts, that is except those 70's style lamps.. :)
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    edited 2013-09-11 20:53
    Well, at the time my first car was only 17 years old and one year older than me.
    1969 Pontiac Firebird.jpg
    1969 Pontiac Firebird.jpg
    400 x 300 - 38K
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-09-11 21:19
    Okay, smarty pantses, so when was the original of this device first built?


    Here's a hint: it's an astronomical calculator.

    Here's another hint: in the day this device was first constructed, one of the late celebrities who was all the rage at the time had this to say:
    "Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."



    And the answer: (No cheating!)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
  • CuriousOneCuriousOne Posts: 931
    edited 2013-09-11 21:51
    The design is totally different story. That man guessed the future design, and this is great. Also, there was another great man, Victor Papanek, in his book, "Design for the new world" he predicted a lot of things, including bling bling covers for iphone.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 07:54
    ElectricAye wrote: »
    Okay, smarty pantses, so when was the original of this device first built?

    NAMA_Machine_d'Anticyth
  • CuriousOneCuriousOne Posts: 931
    edited 2013-09-12 12:36
    It seems like we understand a word "design" differently.

    I understand it as description of visual outlook, functionality and overal feel.

    You understand it as synonym of "development".

    From "my" design side, antikythera is nothing spectacular or innovative by visual side, and in my opinion, nothing special in technical side, too. Despite it's age.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 13:19
    CuriousOne wrote: »
    and in my opinion, nothing special in technical side, too. Despite it's age.
    In the documentary there was a guy who tried to put together the pieces by deducing from what could be seen and his own mechanical expertise, what was facinating was that he disagreed with one of the cogs and amount of teeth that it was suggesting from the exposed parts, his mathematical calculations were coming out to an unusual amount of teeth that actually made no sense in the celestial side of things and so he first changed the amount to what he thought it should be, but later on realised that a built in mechanical "slip" and the unusual amount of teeth gave an extraordinary accuracy, far better than his original ideas it showed the ancient greeks understood the celestial mechanics of the planets to a very high degree for their period in time.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 14:07
    CuriousOne,

    What's the problem. "design" is pretty much any plan you have. Check the definition of the word. First on the list is "To conceive or fashion in the mind"

    If you think antikythera is nothing special in the course of human history then I think you have missed a lot.

    You might then tell me that Stone Henge is just a collection of big rocks.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 14:13
    Heater. wrote: »

    You might then tell me that Stone Henge is just a collection of big rocks.
    K030970_2_.jpg

    Ahem! :smile:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 14:16
    CuriousOne,
    Victor Papanek, in his book, "Design for the new world"
    Thank you for that.
    My mother bought me that book when I was a teenager in the 1970's and I was enthralled. Recently I was trying to remember the name of the author or even the title. Now I know.

    I always wondered what went wrong with design after that...
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 14:17
    skylight,

    Nice picture. Your point there is what exactly?
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 14:20
    Well it is a pile of rocks :smile:
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-09-12 14:24
    It is the design of the pile that makes it special.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 14:29
    Next thing you'll be telling me is it's a timepiece, I'd like to see that strapped to a wrist! :smile:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 14:44
    Bah!

    Now I don't know who is joking or not or why.

    As far as I can tell the Pyramids are a pile of rocks. The only way they could think to stop them falling down is to build a big pile. Wide at the base and pointy at the top. The Aztec's did the same.

    Meanwhile, Stone Henge was the first example we have of Lego bricks. With bumps that fitted into holes to key the whole thing together. Brilliant!

    As for the clock idea, I don't know, every time I visited Stone Henge on mid-summers day to check that out it was cloudy and raining. So who knows how it lines up with the Sun?
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-09-12 16:17
    CuriousOne wrote: »
    It seems like we understand a word "design" differently.

    I understand it as description of visual outlook, functionality and overal feel.....


    Oh, dude, you haven't lived until you've stroked one of these babies.

    Ooooooh..... ahhHHhhhhhh..........
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2013-09-12 16:40
    This was a bit ahead of its time...
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-13 11:15
    Heater. wrote: »
    every time I visited Stone Henge on mid-summers day to check that out it was cloudy and raining. So who knows how it lines up with the Sun?
    You have a good point there, perhaps it wasn't anything to do with time or calendars, but were sluice gates? :smile:
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-13 11:17
    W9GFO wrote: »
    This was a bit ahead of its time...
    I still personally think that was the best film ever made.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-13 11:19
    Well, apart from Forbidden Planet, of course.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-13 11:26
    ok that's a hard choice, the two best films ever made
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    edited 2013-09-14 14:24
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  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-14 16:59
    :lol: now you're being Siri
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