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Absorptive design found its way first into schools and offices, where acoustics products were marketed as essential to creating quieter interiors and thus more efficient and less distraction-prone workers (or students). These products were advertised as “sound-conditioning” devices that would purify an environment of “unnatural” sounds. In catalogs for commercial and home interiors, sound-absorptive surfaces were linked directly to comfort, sophistication, and luxury.

After passing through the vestibule, Ive said, “I can’t emphasize enough: I think there’s something really very special about how practical we are. And you could, depending on your vantage point, describe it perhaps as old-school and traditional, or you could describe it as very effective.” To our left was an open kitchen with tables and benches, a vintage Faema espresso machine, and a wall of books that included “100 Superlative Rolex Watches” and a study of Joe Colombo, the designer best known for his round-cornered Kartell storage carts. The kitchen flowed into an area of individual workstations. To our right was a brightly lit room where a dozen oak worktables stood, in tidy formation, on a polished-concrete floor.

“I feel better now that I’m not afraid to speak to them,” Lee said. “Before I was really scared. After talking with him (Reyes), I really like him. I like this place. It’s really coming along.”

At launch, a range of 12 exterior colors are available: Fuji White, Narvik Black, Yulong White, Indus Silver, Corris Grey, Santorini Black, Kaikoura Stone, Byron Blue, Firenze Red, Aruba, Silicon Silver and Carpathian Grey.

You wouldn’t know the DualPro is a dual-layer case unless you looked at it closely. Unlike with other two-layer cases, the DualPro’s seams are very tight, and the case doesn’t try to look tough. The similarity in color between the two layers doesn’t hurt, either. The bottom layer is made of silicone, and the top is a hard plastic with a soft-touch coating. That coating makes the DualPro comfortable to hold, though it does yield fingerprints more easily than other cases. Overall, though, this is a premium-feeling case.

But how does the UA Protect Verge do as a case? It’s… meh. Even though it is unique, I’m not a fan of the look. The buttons aren’t very good; they require quite a bit of effort to depress. The hard plastic back is prone to the rainbow effect at certain angles, too. That being said, it is protective, with a sizable lip and adequate protection all around the phone. The cutouts are accurate, but they are on every case.

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Drivers gain extra peace of mind thanks to SOS Emergency call technology with Automatic Collision Detection and Optimized Land Rover Assistance. In the event of an emergency, an SOS call notifies emergency services of the location of the vehicle. Should the vehicle break down, Optimized Land Rover Assistance transmits the vehicle’s GPS location and vehicle diagnostics data to a recovery company to assist in provisioning the best emergency response.

As you might be able to tell from the name (and the camera cutout), this case is intended to be used with lens attachments. We’ll have a review of those in conjunction with this case up soon. But it turns out that Moment has made a case that is actually pretty kickass on its own. It’s very well-made, and in my opinion, it’s worth every bit of the $30 it costs (sans lenses).

For the first time on a Land Rover model, a four-cylinder Ingenium diesel engine will be offered, delivering high levels of torque from low engine speeds, ensuring excellent responsiveness and acceleration whenever the driver demands it. Features such as the highly rigid crankcase, twin balancer shafts and active fluid-filled engine mounts ensure superb refinement.

Team members work twelve hours a day and can’t discuss work with friends. Each project has a lead designer, but almost everyone contributes to every project, and shares the credit. (Who had this or that idea? “The team.”) Ive describes his role as lying between two extremes of design leadership: he is not the source of all creativity, nor does he merely assess the proposals of colleagues. The big ideas are often his, and he has an opinion about every detail. Team meetings are held in the kitchen two or three times a week, and Ive encourages candor. “We put the product ahead of anything else,” he said. “Let’s say we’re talking about something that I’ve done that’s ugly and ill-proportioned—because, believe you me, I can pull some beauties out of the old hat. . . . It’s fine, and we all do, and sometimes we do it repeatedly, and we have these seasons of doing it—”

Nolan is a vertically integrated company and they manufacture their own face shields in the factory. The Lexan beads are shown on the left.