????雖然弗雷德?鮑爾德（Fred Bould）這個名字鮮為人知，但如今市面上許多炙手可熱的小玩意都出自他名下的工作室之手。如果不親自造訪一趟鮑爾德工作室，你肯定無法想像這一切。這座小小的工作室隱藏在加州山景城101號高速公路旁，與幾家汽車修理店和墨西哥煎餅連鎖店比鄰而居。過去這些年，鮑爾德工作室曾參與打造過不少大受歡迎的設備，例如Roku2流媒體播放器和GoPro最新推出的便攜式極限運動攝像機。雖然鮑爾德本人矢口否認，但有消息稱，他的其工作室還參與設計過Nest公司的恒溫器和煙霧報警器（點開Nest的主頁就可以看到那個晶瑩剔透的恒溫器）。

????雖然鮑爾德工作室贏得過許多工業設計大獎，但它在主流媒體面前仍屬小眾。不過酒香不怕巷子深，硅谷許多頂尖硬件制造商都親自登門拜見這位性格溫和的設計師。鮑爾德稱：“我們靠口耳相傳。”下面是鮑爾德工作室最近的一些作品：

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????這款全新的極簡主義設備是面向老年人推出的（整套系統還包括放置在藥品盒內的無線傳感器。一旦老人忘記服藥，這個小玩意可以立即自動通知親屬。）。

????Fred Bould is far from a household name, but his small industrial design firm is behind some of the hottest gadgets currently on the market. You'd never guess it by visiting Bould Design's offices—the small team works out of a nondescript building right off of Highway 101 in Mountain View, Calif., nestled among auto body shops and burrito joints. But over the past few years, the firm has helped craft popular devices like the Roku 2 streaming player and GoPro's most recent wearable video camera, used to shoot extreme sports. Bould won't confirm, but his firm is also rumored to have helped develop the design for the Nest thermostat and smoke alarm (the thermostat is featured prominently on the company's website).

????Bould Design has won a number of industry-specific awards in recent years, but is still relatively unknown in more mainstream circles. That clearly hasn't stopped the soft-spoken designer from attracting some of the Valley's sexiest hardware makers. "They hear about us by word of mouth," he says. Here's a sample of some of Bould's most recent designs:

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????This new, simplistic device is targeted at seniors (the system includes wireless sensors that attach to pillboxes and automatically notify relatives when grandma or grandpa forget to take their medication).