{"id":407,"date":"2005-11-10T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=407"},"modified":"2005-11-12T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T20:35:47","slug":"revolutionizing-the-mundane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionizing the Mundane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/philbulbs.jpg\" alt=\"PhilipsLEDlighting\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m currently working on a design project that involves a low tech and fairly mundane product, coming across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presslink.nl\/philipssimplicity\/\">Philips press release website<\/a> was a nice find. I wasn&#8217;t aware of (or just forgot all about) Philips&#8217; official &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscenter.philips.com\/About\/article-15108.html\">Simplicity Event<\/a>&#8220;. And some of the product concepts they&#8217;re putting on display are a nice reminder to not fall too deeply into the trap of believing that because something has been around for decades, there isn&#8217;t something new and innovative which can still be introduced. The above image, and the one over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/entry_714.php\">Inhabitat<\/a> where I found the link, are nice examples. Check out the Philips site for some more concepts (and no smirking over those Senseo sales award pics).<\/p>\n<p>{Image Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Philips}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m currently working on a design project that involves a low tech and fairly mundane product, coming across this Philips press release website was a nice find. I wasn&#8217;t aware of (or just forgot all about) Philips&#8217; official &#8220;Simplicity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=407\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}