Five ways to be geek chic, from smart designer handbags to fashionable laptops
TECHNOLOGY is not just about boring beige boxes. These five examples of fine design prove useful gadgets can also be super stylish.
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TECHNOLOGY might have a daggy reputation but a new wave of gadgets is proving geek can be chic.
From smart, battery-packing handbags to copper-hinged laptops slimmer than magazines, there is no reason to buy boring, beige devices any more.
We round up five examples of fine technology design, and put them through their paces.
Originally published as Five ways to be geek chic, from smart designer handbags to fashionable laptops
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