Since the 1920s, the way to make a car has been to construct a metalshell bearing all the stresses, based on load-bearing floors, pillars and panels hammered out by huge presses costing millions of dollars.
Inspired by the mysterious, incredible power of information technology, the LaCie Blade Runner combines an anthropomorphic metal interior with an angular cage-like shell.
She avoided their eyes as she lifted the bottles from her metal tray and placed them between the coconut-shell ashtrays on the hibiscus-patterned plastic tablecloth.
It's focusing instead on a new manufacturing process that replaces the layers of metal parts that hold the insides of most laptops together with a rigid aluminum shell.