While hiding technology is currently the trend in homes, it wasn’t so long ago that showing it off was de rigueur. “A little over a decade ago, the trend was that people who could afford technology preferred to show it off. They weren’t modest about being ostentatious,” says Mark Hernandez of New York City-based electronics integration firm Cliqk. Yet despite trends, some electronics gear features such incredible industrial design that hiding it would be sinful.
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