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The company’s recently unveiled product line, StrandTec, is ideally suited for a wide range of locations, including bars, restaurants, sports and entertainment venues, convention centers, corporate spaces, industrial facilities and airports, as well as schools, music rooms, gyms, houses of worship and more. The StrandTec wood-fiber panels are available as lay-ins, wall panels, direct-attach, backfill, t-slot or routed designs, making them a versatile option for any project.

Ive collected watches, and he had often discussed watch design with colleagues and with Newson, who in the nineties had founded his own watch company, Ikepod. “The job of the designer is to try to imagine what the world is going to be like in five or ten years,” Newson told me. “You’re thinking, What are people going to need?” In 2011, largely thanks to advances in the miniaturization of technology, the answer seemed to be a wearable notification device paired to a phone—making it yet simpler to exchange messages of love, or tardiness. That summer, Google made an eight-pound prototype of a computer worn on the face. To Ive, then unaware of Google’s plans, “the obvious and right place” for such a thing was the wrist. When he later saw Google Glass, Ive said, it was evident to him that the face “was the wrong place.” Cook said, “We always thought that glasses were not a smart move, from a point of view that people would not really want to wear them. They were intrusive, instead of pushing technology to the background, as we’ve always believed.” He went on, “We always thought it would flop, and, you know, so far it has.” He looked at the Apple Watch on his wrist. “This isn’t obnoxious. This isn’t building a barrier between you and me.” He continued, “If I get a notification here, it will tap my wrist”—with silent vibrations. “I can casually look and see what’s going on.” We were in a conference room at One Infinite Loop, a few doors from Jobs’s old office, and I noticed that, at this moment in the history of personal technology, Cook still uses notifications in the form of a young woman appearing silently from nowhere to hold a sheet of paper in his line of sight.

In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he carries a little sheepishly, as if it belonged to someone else—has described himself as both “deeply, deeply tired” and “always anxious.” When he sits down, on an aluminum stool in Apple’s design studio, or in the cream leather back seat of his Bentley Mulsanne, a car for a head of state, he is likely to emit a soft, half-ironic groan. His manner suggests the burden of being fully appreciated. There were times, during the past two decades, when he considered leaving Apple, but he stayed, becoming an intimate friend of Steve Jobs and establishing the build and the finish of the iMac, the MacBook, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. He is now one of the two most powerful people in the world’s most valuable company. He sometimes listens to CNBC Radio on his hour-long commute from San Francisco to Apple’s offices, in Silicon Valley, but he’s uncomfortable knowing that a hundred thousand Apple employees rely on his decision-making—his taste—and that a sudden announcement of his retirement would ambush Apple shareholders. (To take a number: a ten-percent drop in Apple’s valuation represents seventy-one billion dollars.) According to Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’s widow, who is close to Ive and his family, “Jony’s an artist with an artist’s temperament, and he’d be the first to tell you artists aren’t supposed to be responsible for this kind of thing.”

That afternoon, he was eating salmon sashimi, and complaining about seasonal allergies. “I’m going to limp toward the weekend, and take Monday off, I think,” he said. He described the previous day as “momentous.” His iPhone 6 softly chimed a text alert every minute or two. To those of Ive’s generation, the new phones were perhaps large and slippery enough to trigger nostalgia for the small, tough phones of a decade ago. I asked Ive about the slightly protruding camera lens that prevents the iPhone 6 from resting comfortably on its back. Ive referred to that decision—without which the phone would be slightly thicker—as “a really very pragmatic optimization.” One had to guess at the drama behind the phrase. “And, yeah . . .” he said.

“Tranquility abounds as you listen to the relaxing sounds of the garden waterfall,” says the homeowner. “It is so peaceful here.”

The regions covered in the reports of global Textile Acoustic Panel market are South America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, and North America. North America is showing a significant growth in the global Textile Acoustic Panel Industry over the projected period (2018-2025). The Asia Pacific is growing at a remarkable rate. Particularly, the emerging economies such as India and China are expected to grow during the projected period.

No other cases on the market look like UAG’s. The back features a clear back with a honeycomb design that’s topped by a giant plastic bug-esque plastic piece and some massive UAG branding. I have the ‘Ash’ color, which features a slightly smoked back when compared to the clear ‘Ice.’ The corners are heavily reinforced for maximum shock resistance, and there are fake rubber screws on the back that don’t really do anything. There are also some plastic ridges on the side for added grip. This isn’t the type of case that I’d ordinarily buy, but I can certainly see the merit in the design. It’s rated for MIL-STD 810G drop resistance, so all this must come together to do something.

The LED taillights echo the sophistication of the headlights with an eye-catching 3D appearance. They are complemented by a full-length high-level stop-lamp: hidden-until-lit and with a clear lens, it uses light-guide technology with integrated micro-optics to create smooth, homogeneous light. The LED rear fog lights blend into the sweeping black contrast design as it reaches the rear of the vehicle.

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Since Peel is a direct competitor to MNML, I’m going to be making a lot of comparisons to the MNML here. The fundamentals are all the same: thin plastic material, accurate cutouts, exposed buttons, and so on. However, they differ in a few ways, and one of them is in terms of protection. Whereas the MNML has a raised area around the fingerprint sensor and nothing really around the camera, the Peel has the opposite. Both are valid methods of protecting the fingerprint sensor and camera, though I’d argue that Peel’s is slightly better. The MNML also comes in more colors, while the Peel only comes in "silver" (it’s more of a frosted white) and "black."

This beautiful 3 bed, 2 full & 1 half bathroom 2 story home, is looking for a new owner to call it home! Neutral paint, updated flooring, & updated kitchen and bathrooms make this home move in ready! Kitchen features breakfast room, custom 42" cabinetry with built in wine rack, center island, granite countertops, gas range/oven, built in microwave, and dishwasher. Large family room with fireplace, & dining room! Lower level is finished with large recreation room, plenty of space for storage, and possible bedroom. Nice large fenced yard with access just off the breakfast room to a deck and patio, great for grilling, entertaining, and relaxing. Two car garage walks into living room, updated windows, with good closet space. Master bedroom suite has a walk-in shower & double sinks; 2 master closets! New roof in 2016, high efficiency HVAC, newer siding and sliding door. Easy access to highway, close to Arnold Golf Club, shopping, & dining.

Installation view of Svizzera 240: House Tour at the Swiss Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Wilson Wootton.