After the Optimus keyboard, now a USB hub from Art Lebedev

After the OLED keyboard at a cost of just 1257,14 euros (save the pennies and ...), the Russian design studio Art Lebedev has put forward this USB hub concept. The brief: make it look good.

Ora-ïto had already responded to a similar brief from LaCie. We found the LaCie Huby pretty but impractical. Art Lebedev is now carrying the torch. In fact, the design was submitted in February but, hey, Russia is a long way off and as we know, when something happens far away, the internet takes a long time to relay it through...

Anyway, here’s one of Art Lebedev’s latest concepts. Pretty seductive we reckon:

And to those who say that Art Lebedev only knows how to produce theoretical and expensive impractical designs, check out this Samsung microwave designed by Art Lebedev! Note the appearance of a new, no doubt indispensable button. A heart. Anyone have any idea what it’s for?