Hahaha the orb can track the terror alert level.

It's funny, I looked at those and said "how sci-fi," but chromey things with wires and edges would have elicited the same response. I wonder if there's a awy to correlate shifts in the technology presented as "futuristic" with shifts in the perception of technology and the future in general. For instance, these are very organic; is this because we want to subsume technology with the body, and make our gadgets visibly extensions of ourselves?