I'm incredibly flattered by the reception my sketch has received. My inspiration for this was some of the cool skins that people have made for audio or video players, as well as the interfaces Kai Krause used to do for Kai's Power Tools.

But I know that there have to be other wonderful, graphically rich designs floating around in TG user's heads, and I'd really like to see them. I don't think we are in any hurry to decide on the UI yet.

Additionally I have no idea how to integrate the logo contenders with this gear idea, but I'm sure the artists and designers here on TG can find a way if they care to riff on the gear.

And as far as the gear idea goes in my head I could see it as a wonderful Steampunk thing with switches and pulleys etc for other elements like choosing which program is being configured etc. Or it could be photorealistic, or it could be a stencil, or 3D or really, really flat - Win 8ish. All these ideas I can see in my head, but I don't have the skill or the time to work them all out - but maybe these ideas on variations will tickle someone's imagination.