Quote: All I can say is that you’ve never seen anything like it from a design standpoint.
Let's combine what we believe to know
- design like never seen before, by Marc Newson.
- appearance more like heavy duty Optio; with black and white, yellow leather option.
- outer dimensions/weight like K-x with prism, grip, bottom plate shaved off.
- a DA 40 XS which might just be a design variant of the DA 40.
- EVF, flash, SR, battery to support the K-5 sensor's LV.
By rugged Optio, I guess a WG-1 is meant (cf. below)
[source: pentaximaging.com ]
Marc seems to have a certain preference for organic bulging shapes with pronounced bi-color edges, like
[source: paulhughes.co.uk ]
It is described in Wikipedia as "a style which uses smooth flowing lines, translucency, transparency and tends to have an absence of sharp edges"
And noticing that the K01 is bicolor and the WG-1 is bulging and a K01 would be deeper allowing for bulges in the 3rd dimension, I can see space for a new design icon. Or another failed attempt to make a product nice by making it unusable
Interesting times
P.S.
I made a sketch of how I think it may look like. But I keep it for me personally to compare with when first images emerge