Apple Staircase to Budapest

Posted by stephen on Friday, 31st March, 2006 @ 18:16

I've always thought and often commented, much to the annoyance of any shopper accompanying me, that the staircase at the Apple Store in Regent Street has a very 'Apple' feel to it. Of course the aesthetics of it are incredible, and it's an engineering marvel, so I've just read. But no one seems to mention the wonderful resonance and springiness of them, the user experience being my favourite part! Anyway, turns out Apple had them specially built (of course), pushing the technologies involved forward and patenting them in the process. So they truly are Apple stairs! And they've even built spiral versions in a couple of the Japanese stores.

I'm off to Budapest tomorrow for the week with Richard, and I can't wait. For some reason I've got this feeling I'm really going to love the place. There's previously been an unencrypted wireless access point in range of the flat, so we're hoping it's still there. So expect lots of excited posting next week or none at all because I'm having too much fun.