Vulvacious accessories for your iPaq

I can't be the first person to notice that the Targus stowaway keyboard for the Compaq iPaq seems to look like, well, a vagina.

Side view of the Targus stowaway keyboard for the Compaq iPaq; when you press the 'button' it opens.

I wonder if it's the accidental byproduct of some late night design sessions by the (presumably, undersexed) industrial designers at Targus. Or maybe it was a deliberate appeal to the libidinal subconscious of the male gadget freak. When I bought mine, the clerk described it as "soooo sexy." Did he know?

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Posted by Gene Smith on Dec 9, 2002. Before this there was Merchants of Cool. Next up is Do publication bans still work?.

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Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. He writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. More >

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