I was thinking the same, it gives it an old jukebox style. I would definitely grab one as gift for some of my friends that go to the beach or grill outside all the time.
Of course looks are (mostly) subjective, I'm in agreement with Lloyd/Dan and think it's brilliant aesthetically. The white, black and green all look great. I fall for simple and clean designs more often than not, or at least in the long term. Something that looks really cool at first often wears thin after a while (Alienware cases, etc).
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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So ugly, it's actually cute?
Actually, I like its functional look. It doesn't try too hard to have "style."
I was thinking the same, it gives it an old jukebox style. I would definitely grab one as gift for some of my friends that go to the beach or grill outside all the time.
Of course looks are (mostly) subjective, I'm in agreement with Lloyd/Dan and think it's brilliant aesthetically. The white, black and green all look great. I fall for simple and clean designs more often than not, or at least in the long term. Something that looks really cool at first often wears thin after a while (Alienware cases, etc).