Soon the beige-box desktop PC will be a thing of the past. The ever-fashionable folks who design PC cases, inspired by Coco Chanel’s “little black dress” trend (of 1926), have decided to drop the tired beige cases in favor of grey, black and silver ones. This fall, Compaqs, Gateways and Dells will all be sporting new darker-hued frocks. “The death of the beige box is really the tip of the iceberg,” argues Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future. “Computers of all kinds–desktops, notebooks, handhelds, MP3 players, and cell phones–are embedding themselves deeper and deeper into our lives, and one of the things they have to do is dress better.”
Perhaps, if we are lucky, next season we can finally find an MP3 player that matches our Nine West boots.
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