Remember when audio tours were the future of museum displays? But why just hear about the works when you can feel your way through an exhibit? Apple recently donated 100 iPod Touch devices to the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for their new exhibit. These greatest hits of design are brought to life by an ocean of interviews, audios, and animations in the palm of your hand. The exhibit is labeled Design USA: Contemporary Innovation and looks back at the winners of the first ten National Design Awards. If you ever wanted to wander through the museum with an award-winning designer as tour guide, here’s your chance. Lose yourself in the world of your iPod, then zoom back out to have a better understanding of the physical object sitting on display. We still can’t touch the objects themselves, but we can poke and caress their digital histories to our heart’s content.

Milton Glaser at the Touch of a button. We <3 it!