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With fresh rumors circulating about a new MacBook Air , and a makeover long overdue, what would constitute a great redesign? What kind of a feature set should a next-generation MacBook Air have? (Credit: Apple )   The story line seems to be that Apple wants to insert the new portable in between the current 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 9.7-inch iPad , thus the rumors about an 11.6-inch device . Assuming Apple actually has something like this in the works, I can't help speculating on the design goals for a new Air. Should it be a hybrid tablet-laptop ? Should it be just a smaller, more powerful, more battery-efficient version of the current Air and pack features like a killer display?

Industrial designers sometimes make the mistake of thinking that certain product elements are written in stone, or that they just aren’t worth thinking about. And sometimes it takes a set of fresh eyes to see an exceptionally simple yet innovative solution. That was the case when Royal College of Art student Min Kyu Choi re-imagined the bulky UK power plug.