(via Noria “Redefines” Window Air Conditioner Units + Subtraction.com)
Khoi Vinh on air conditioners:
To me, this is one of the enduring mysteries of contemporary industrial design, which has over the past twenty years sought to reinvent, redesign or elevate out of commodity status almost every object in the home, from vacuum cleaners to thermostats to toaster ovens. The closest thing to innovation that the AC market seems to have produced is so-called ductless air conditioning, but those units don’t address the problem that most Westerners want to solve with window units: cool a room with a machine that costs less than US$1,000.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/145552811907
