Too many design obsessed people I know are a little too willing to give up function for style. I saw at the Centre Pompidou that Markus Badler and Max Wolf explore this idea with their "Bootleg Project"
Here they have taken iconic, although technologically outdated, audio equipment and worked them over. Deiter Rams' Audio 1 for Braun 1962 (aka the "white coffin"), Jacob Jensen's Beocenter 1400 for Bang & Olusfsen 1972, and Technic's SL1210 MkII turntable were functionally altered by kitting them out with contemporary technologies. Added were Wi-Fi, DVD readers, USB ports, MP3 players, RFID chips and more.