Gallery: Yves Behar Designed This Surprisingly Beautiful Set-Top Box

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    Le Cube S, a tiny set-top box for French television company Canal+, is eight years in the making.
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    Yves Béhar's design studio fuseproject wanted to make a cube eight years ago, but technology hadn't become small enough yet.
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    Now they've done it. At eight centimeters by eight centimeters, the new set-top box for Canal+ is one-fourth the size of the original.
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    There's also a a color screen on one side of Le Cube S, which shows channel logos and notifications when the box is on.
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