Whoever says machines cannot be very, very beautiful?

I believe that machines can be beautiful - even very beautiful, sometimes. The photos below exemplify this. I call this "HyperBeauty". Of course, this beauty is different from and not comparable to the enigmatic beauty of a female (here, and here).

Core i7 image from this WSJ story

Globemaster III image from this album


A beautiful Intel Core 2 Duo processor (source)

IBM POWER 5 Microprocessor: Tiny, yet beautiful (source)

Huge and majestic looking Transall C-160 (source)

A representative map of the Internet backbone (source)

The breathtakingly beautiful UltraSPARC microprocessor

AirTran Boeing 717 (source)