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Bicycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycles Chinese knives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_knife#Chinese_chef.27s_knife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_knife#Chinese_chef.27s... Chopsticks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks CPUs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit Fiber lasers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_laser IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol Mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail Trimarans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix PS. This is a very interesting question. Although I suspect the OP was looking for products and UI/UX, I think higher-level categories are more objective and timeless bastions of design excellence. PPS. Note these which stand out to me fall roughly in to two categories: those which harness physics, and those which avoid or abstract it.