FRIEZE ART FAIR NEW YORK 2012
MILAN 2012: SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE
MILAN 2012: SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS
MILAN 2012: BRERA DESIGN DISTRICT
Posted by hipstomp | 20 Feb 2012
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The Philippe-Starck-designed ZIK headphones, due out sometime this year, have classic Starck styling and some innovative interface features: Volume control and track advancement are achieved by finger-swiping the smooth surface covering your right ear, and if you've got an NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled smartphone, you simply tap it against the headphones to transfer audio files. Pulling the headphones off automatically kills the music, though it's not clear if you must remove the headphones every time you want to pause.
One thing that had me scratching my head is the attendant product video, which is as amazingly cheesy as any '80s music video. And it appears to be earnest rather than ironically cheesy:
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"I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact," Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.
"Everything I designed was unnecessary.
"I will definitely give up in two years' time. I want to do something else, but I don't know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself ...design is a dreadful form of expression."
-Philippe Starck, 2008
Absolutely forgettable product design with some interesting interface features...
Looks like cheap crap. Sorry.