Core77

With the early devices that we used to consume media, form basically followed function: Radios had control knobs and a speaker on the front, televisions had screens front and center, and rabbit ear antennas stretched high to capture signals.

Nowadays screens have become little more than flat rectangles, and the need for set-top boxes like Blockbuster's 2Wire MediaPoint player, Netflix's Roku, and the Apple TV beg the question: How can form follow function when the functions are a bunch of transistors, microchips and wires?

The answer, apparently, is...more rectangles. Sigh.