Yanko Design agrees: Rugged compacts needn't look it

Camillo Vanacore's stylish concept for a rugged Coolpix.

(Credit: Camillo Vanacore/Yanko Design)

After seeing this year's offerings at CES and PMA, I was disappointed by how Frankensteinian rugged compacts are, with all their nuts and bolts hanging out.

So I hope someone somewhere heeds the new concept cam by Yanko Design's Camillo Vanacore for a flashy faux Coolpix dubbed "eXtreme," which he describes as "an all-weather, all-terrain coolpix device that looks sleek and really knows how to rough it out!"

(Via PhotographyBlog)

[carguy622]

That is a slick design. Although it may be slippery when wet.

[lgrunin]

I also neglected to point out that it looks impossible to grip.