href="http://newdealdesign.com/projects/sling-media">
src="http://www.gizmolovers.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Slingbox-PRO-HD-300x108.png?9d7bd4" alt="Slingbox PRO-HD" title="Slingbox PRO-HD" width="300" height="108" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7595" /> Dave Zatz of
href="http://www.zatznotfunny.com/">Zatz Not Funny recently called my attention to the site of
href="http://newdealdesign.com/">New Deal Design. Specifically because we’re both ex-Sling employees, and it turns one one of New Deal Design’s
href="http://newdealdesign.com/projects/sling-media">clients is Sling Media.
They have a short video which walks through the different generations of their designs for Sling Media and highlights some of the key design points:
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They also have one on the Sling Touch Control 100, which they designed of course:
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This was
href="http://www.slingmedia.com/get/io_1262730041675.html">announced at CES 2010, but I don’t believe it ever shipped.
New Deal Design has worked on a number of other well known projects as well – such as the
href="http://newdealdesign.com/projects/lytro-2">Lytro,
href="http://newdealdesign.com/projects/sifteo-cubes" class="broken_link" rel="nofollow">Sifteo Cubes, the
href="http://newdealdesign.com/projects/fitbit-wellness-tracker" class="broken_link" rel="nofollow">Fitbit Wellness Tracker, and, reaching way back, the
href="http://newdealdesign.com/projects/palm-zire">Palm Zire. They’re the design wizards behind the curtain.
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