Technology Review 正在进行一个投票, 其中列举了9件20世纪至今名声响亮的经典产品.从1972年诞生的Polaroid 宝丽来 SX-70(第一部单镜反光即影相机).
Polaroid's first fully automatic, motorized camera was an instant design classic. Detailed with tan leather, it folded into a rectangle the size of a paperback book. Andrew Logan, principal designer at Frog Design, admires it for the "immediacy of a favorable output." He explains: "Instead of waiting days to see if you took a good photo, you could take it again right away."

 
Atari 2600 (1977)
史上第一部正真意义上的家用游戏主机系统
Mark Rolston, VP of creative at Frog Design, reckons the Atari made computers friendly before the Mac. "It was sitting on the floor, being used by 10-year-old kids. It's burned like a brand in the brains of people my age because that was our childhood."
Atari 2600确有其独到之处.首先它所确立的"以家用电视机作为显示器从主机分离出去,以线缆连结的手柄作为控制单元"成为以后绝大多数家用机(不包括便携机)的标准系统结构模式.在这以前,所谓的家用游戏机大多自带显示单元,且控制器是集成在主机上的.这样抬高了整机的价格,操纵又不方便.Atari 2600巧妙的利用了普及率极高的家用电视机即降低了成本,又得到了很好的视觉效果.另一个划时代的创新就是可更换游戏卡带的登场.在此之前的游戏机的游戏都是固化在ROM里的,一旦玩腻了这个游戏,其主机的使用寿命也就终止了.而Atari 2600对应的卡带可以不停的翻新,使主机一直保持相当的吸引力.可以说凭这一点家用游戏机才真正超越了其他玩具,达到了娱乐器具的顶峰.

 
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (1983)
世界首款手机--motorola大哥大
This was the first commercially available cellphone that took Motorola $100m and a decade to develop. "Old things are precious, aren't they?" muses MIT Media Lab's John Maeda, who admits to keeping old cells on his windowsill. "First objects are always daring."
1973年，Motorola展示了世界上首款便携移动电话的原型机，那款原型机有人的脚那样长，重量为2磅(0.904kg)，价格为3995美元，最终该机器成为商业化机型为1983年，这就是Motorola DynaTAC 8000X，它的电池可以提供1小时的通话时间，它的内存可以存储30个电话号码，它看起来不很漂亮，但是它可以让人们实现了边走边打电话，当然您也可以将它拿在手上，装在口袋里。


Amazon (1995)
首个电子商务网站--亚马逊
"Amazon is iconic, but not necessarily good design," says Mark Rolston of Frog Design. "It represents a basic approach to e-commerce. It's balanced cacophony: there's search, reviews, and comments swirling around these pages."

 
HP 12c Calculator (1981)
计算器中的经典,至今仍在广泛使用
"It is the calculator. The way it looks is what you think of when you think of a calculator," says Frog Design's Mark Rolston. "It's still used by people. It's an example of how to build a product if you want it to stay around."


Palm V (1999)
PDA的原型
Matias Duarte of Helio would pick the Palm V as his best product of the past 20 years. "It has the three essential attributes of design: substance; style; and simplicity. It set the essential feature set for a PDA. No exposed screws or fasteners. The hardware and software set were part of one experience."

 
Sony Walkman (1979)
索尼walkman随身听
"It has simplicity of use," says Andrew Logan, principal designer at Frog Design. "You could give it to someone who's never used one before and they can use it. You can only get that with reduction of features." Mark Rolston goes on. "I remember the response when you put on your headphones Your parents would look at you like you killed someone."
音乐已经成为我们日常生活中最重要的组成部分，SONY起了不可忽略的作用，WALKMAN让音乐一下子融进整个世界；从最初的TAPE磁带开始，到那风靡全球的CD音乐，SONY那个独特的WALKMAN标志随处可见（90年代的中国更是WALKMAN的天下，到处都可以看到商店在贩卖索尼的播放器），因此有人说：SONY的WALKMAN引领了20世纪音频播放器的革命。

 
Netscape (1994)
网景浏览器
Mark Rolston of Frog Design. "If you look at a modern browser like Internet Explorer or Safari, you see the URL bar, the Back and Forward buttons, Home and Refresh. We've added things, we've made it prettier, but the browser hasn't been reinvented."
1994年，Andreessen创办了Netscape Communications公司，继而向世界推出自己新开发的Navigator网络浏览器(该浏览器是以Mosaic为基础)，从那以后一切都发生改变，即便是非专业的普通人也能开始品尝HTML网页的美味了。正因为有了Netscape，那时的人们才有理由在互联网上一待就是几个小时，同时这也导致不少Web站点的兴与衰。同期，微软在自己的Windows操作系统中以插件方式捆绑了IE浏览器，而也正是由于Netscape的出现促使美国司法部对这个软件巨头此般做法提出反托拉斯诉讼。　　1995年8月9日注定会成为Netscape自己的纪念日，它的首次公开募股(IPO)就创造出史上最辉煌的记录之一：上市当天上涨154%。这也拉开了.com时代的序幕。

 
NeXT OS (1988) 
NeXT操作系统
Pictured is mid-90s version, NeXTSTEPw
Matias Duarte, VP of experience design at Helio always chose workstations with the NeXT OS at college. "I was able to take mundane Unix tasks and do them with a good graphical user interface. That type of OS as a category is iconic, but the whole windowing and pointing paradigm is really old."
这是个独特的操作系统，与Windows和Linux都不同，它有自己易于使用的脚本和编程语言，用户可完全对其进行定制，并具有故障恢复等功能。

 
MacBook Pro 17" (2006)
苹果笔记本
Bill Moggridge, who designed the first laptop, the GRiD Compass, in 1979, calls this Mac "the nearest to the ultimate laptop that has been achieved to date, for its huge and delicious display as well as for its elegant and refined appearance and proportions."
苹果电脑公司全球产品市场高级副总裁Philip Schiller表示 :“17英寸MacBook Pro拥有世界上最佳的笔记本电脑设计，它可提供专业桌面系统所需的速度和屏幕。配备了英特尔®酷睿™ 双核处理器的全新MacBook Pro，在创新、光滑、1英寸的超薄设计下，可提供无可匹敌的性能。”