I was confused and skeptical until I saw Teenage Engineering involvement. They are an all star company that has never come even close to half-assing a product. Their gear and design chops are absolutely ace.
I'm just happy that there are people who can work for Teenage Engineering building cool things like this. I own a pocket operator and love seeing the bare board and imagining how fun it must have been to build and design it.
Like most Teenage Engineering products, it's an absolutely amazing-looking, well-engineered product with a ton of functionality that does a thing I don't actually need for far more money than I can justify spending on it.
Aside from the fact that this is a rebrand effort and probably not TE's manufacturing, their mainline products have particularly high quality design.
I've been watching a lot of AvE[1] lately, and his BOLTR series features him breaking down hardware and talking about the manufacturing.
While Teenage Engineering wank is definitely not his category of analysis, it's probably not far off, considering he highlighted how spotty the Dyson product line is. I'd love to see him disassemble something like the OP-1.
Agreed, and, to both your points, it's interesting that there is significant engineering never trumpeted in the press about the teams doing engineering to make the designs (physical designs) manufacture-able. it's a super interesting world where mechanical engineering and aesthetic design crossbreed.
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