Braun ET66 Calculator Reissue

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It’s no secret that many of Apple’s products over the last decade have been deeply indebted to the designs of Dieter Rams. Less known, perhaps, is the fact that many of Apple’s apps have borrowed from the master, too. In some cases, like the much-maligned podcast app that lifted its look from the Braun TG 60 tape recorder, the results were unwieldy, to say the least. But in the case of the ET 66 calculator--the inspiration for the iPhone calculator app--the digital facsimile proved just as functional as the plastic product that inspired it.

Eric Anderson
Eric has been building websites with obsessive detail since Y2K. Before joining Squarespace, he worked at a small web design firm based in San Diego, CA.
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