Crispin Jones-designed PBJ UMPCs

Japan's PBJ (not to be confused with the American sandwich of the same name) has enlisted British designer Crispin Jones to add some flair to its line of UMPCs. Taking inspiration from the Japanese writing boxes (suzuribako), Jones writes that his design is meant to "inspire the user in their work," through the use of bright colors, geometric shapes and raised surfaces. Jones' UMPCs will be on display at the 100% Design Tokyo exhibition beginning today through November 5. We'd still like these UMPCs more if they came with a side of peanut butter and strawberry jelly, though (but please, no grape).

[Via Core77]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2006 5:12AM]

looks more like some sortof external soundcard or editing equipment the a portable... pretty cool though.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2006 6:19AM]

Finally, some one else who dosen't like grap jelly. I am not a fan of Strawberry however, I prefer Apple, but lt least its not grape. Now, on the UMPC It looks interesting, but more like that should be either an external hardrive enclosure or a rejected MacBook case design.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2006 1:47PM]

that thing is ugly, period.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2006 4:24PM]

Does it come in Core 2 Duo, or are they waiting for a design from Giger?