Do you want a smaller, sexier version of the Apple iPhone? Well you can't have it. The image above is actually a mock-up by the UK technology site T3, which had an artist dabble in MS Paint for 10 minutes.
Such artistry points out industrial design is becoming a commodity, something that millions of people with talent can now do using today's powerful software tools. The crowdsourcing site CrowdSpring still has two weeks left in its LG mobile design competition (for a $20,000 top prize, upload your phone image here), and Wired recently noted that videogame players are beginning to crack the software to create their own versions of games (such as a baby disarming a nuclear bomb). Not every design is good, as some bloggers like to note. But the democratization of creation means there is a greater chance that brilliance may emerge, as the barriers to the Da Vincis of the future fall.
Our personal favorite? The annual Peugeot Design Competition, in which you can draft your own car. Look at this beauty and tell us that crowds don't have wisdom.
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