Value is almost never absolute; rather, we decide an object's value relative to our other choices.
价值几乎从来不是绝对的；相反，我们是相对于其他选择来确定某一物品的价值。
英语百科
Object Value
In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does is called Object Value. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computingprior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.