September 7, 2008

 

This looks familiar...

Something looks awfully familiar about the new icon for web-search giant Google's newly released web browser called Chrome. Right away the icon for Chrome caught my attention. It reminded me of something from the past...some sort of electronic eye from a classic science fiction film. (Not so much HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, although there seems to be a theme with frightening electronic eyes.) What I remembered was the telescoping eye/periscope thing the Martians used in the 1953 version of War of the Worlds. Chrome's icon looks strikingly similar I think.

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