Hasta La Ideas

Stockholm-based Teenage Engineering brings some fun, pop-py design to the typically-staid product category of music synthesizers with their forthcoming Operator 1. The portable, battery-powered synthesizer doubles as a music controller you can connect to your laptop, and contains some sort of “truly unique sequencer” that is, alas, currently a closely guarded secret.

The Operator 1 is tentatively slated for a Spring 2010 release, though there is a Beta Sign-up button on TE’s website.

Also, simply because we love those paradoxical shots of design studios that look both cluttered and uncluttered, have a look at TE’s workspace:

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