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The top-left corner of Honor 8C’s rear panel has the rear camera system, comprised of two vertically-stacked lenses. Just below them sits the LED flash module, and the words ‘AI Camera’ printed vertically. Move down along the left edge, and you’ll see the ‘Honor’ logo embossed in a similar orientation. There’s also a circular fingerprint sensor in the center of the rear panel’s upper-half section.

Assuming the worst, Ive had a resignation letter in his pocket. Indeed, Jobs’s initial instinct had been to hire a new designer. He had approached Richard Sapper, who designed I.B.M.’s ThinkPad—a black cigar box. (Sapper was tempted, he told me, a little ruefully, but didn’t want to abandon his I.B.M. contract for a “tiny, tiny company.”) Jobs had also met with Hartmut Esslinger, who, as a consultant, was Apple’s industrial designer in the eighties. Esslinger, in an e-mail, recalled telling Jobs that Apple’s existing team, including Ive, “was very talented and competent if given the right leadership.” Esslinger, who has more design-guru swagger than Ive, also takes some credit for what happened next: he said that he encouraged Jobs to refocus the company on “evolving digital-consumer trends.”

If you can live with the rainbow effect (I personally think it makes for an interesting look), this is a great case. If not, just keep in mind that it’ll be pretty difficult to find a clear case at this price point that doesn’t do that. $10.99 (or $11.99 for the Pixel 2′s) is not much money at all for an otherwise great case. Take it easy on the branding, though, Spigen.

Yikes. Great idea, poor execution. Really needs a glass (or plexi) cover over the whole thing. TV’s too small. This is gonna be impossible to clean, and spills will be redirected straight where you don’t want them to go.

Cities are theaters and shape-shifters, too. I’m vaguely reminded of the old Cinecittà studios outside Rome, where Fellini worked and Mr. Anderson has made films. A stable house in the former distillery now resembles the cabinet rooms in old master museums. A tiny, Alice in Wonderland door opens onto an immense warehouse, 60 feet high and 200 feet long.

Recommendation: Don’t buy it – it works for some devices, but it outright won’t for others (like mine).

The tower completes the arts campus OMA has spent the past decade conceiving for the Prada Foundation. An offshoot of the global fashion conglomerate, dedicated to contemporary art and culture, the foundation commissions new art, presents exhibitions and organizes film festivals and other events. It also oversees the vast art collection Ms. Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, have put together. For years, it operated in far-flung locales.

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Ive only then made the case that a ring was “a remarkably pragmatic way of connecting the right groups.” A taller building, he said, would make such connections more complex. The counterargument is fairly strong: the two full-circumference corridors are each about a mile long.

For the ultimate premium appearance, a new Flux Silver satin paint finish is available exclusively for the Velar First Edition model during the first model year from the Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations division and applied at the Oxford Road Technical Center. The advanced paint features a vacuum-metallized pigment to enhance the effect of both light and shade over the vehicle’s elegant, svelte form.

Arte Povera isn’t the only ghost of midcentury modernism inhabiting the project — there’s the twee cafe, with its Formica furniture and veneered wood paneling; the new tower restaurant, with its furniture bought at auction from New York’s Four Seasons; the cinema, with chairs imported from ’70s-era Milanese movie houses; and the sun-baked, deeply shadowed squares, conjuring up de Chirico.

According to Xplore, hard handle XPAD versions will run about $100 (plus the optional scanner in the handle) more than pure tablet versions. As stated above, the handle isn’t just a bolt-on; it’s an integrated housing design that also has a forward-facing speaker and two additional programmable function buttons.