French company CANAL+ and Yves Behar/fuseproject are launching Le Cube, a television receiver with a satellite decoder and ethernet connection.
The design of the black square interactive area is not merely a style exercise but a precise 128×128 pixels LCD display allowing unique animations and the ability to be used in either a horizontal or vertical position through the implementation of a gyroscopic sensor to automatically orientate the information displayed in the appropriate position.
Refreshingly, Le Cube design consistency is carefully applied to the digital user interface. I often wonder why, frustratingly, hardware design, and on-screen UI are rarely designed from the same point of view.