There is one thing In here not like the others…
Imo the old Macintosh design is the 1969 VW Beetle/ bus of computers. ✌️☮️🌼
Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
It just looks so… technological
I always go for the clear plastic replacement shells for my electronics. I got a Dreamcast with a chewed up shell that is now clear blue, did my GBA SP in a clear green a couple of years ago, and I’m looking into reshelling my Wii too now.
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?
It was just a nibble!
We were all tempted. It’s okay.
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The iMac started this.
Gigapet : Am I a joke to you?
I definitely had a translucent tape player and clock radio in 1995.
@Stamets I’ll admit it looks cool, but leaving your clear Gameboy out in the sun was a bad idea.
Wrong, you can get colored and transparent shells for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.
)Also cheap emulation devices like anbernic keeping atomic purple alive
Literally just got a semi-transparent Xbox controller. My kid loves looking at the rumble motor moving inside.
I got one in ‘atomic purple’ because that is the most rad color.
Still perplexed Nintendo hasn’t released atomic purple joycons.
I only got the backplate but man I’m tempted to do the front too.
Also transparent filaments are great. I 3D printed an olfa knife handle in transparent green (think Razer’s green) and it looks fucking awesome.
Got a picture?
Yes, from roughly 1997-2013 according to that image. In that one brief 16 year moment, it peaked.
Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)
REAL
I don’t know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me “cheap garbage” vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards and controllers for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.
Technology design peaked here:
I guess it’s very much a matter of taste.
Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went ‘clunk’, a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.
To me, that was peak design.
I actually took a busted one of those and fit a 32in flat into it. Blocks off a little of the edges with the frame and gives it that square screen look without losing anything important. Cheap soundbar sounds amazing inside the box, everything is plugged into a surge protector inside and fed through the antenna hole.
I really want to get a Vintage breadbox or radio to put the DVD player inside of.
That sounds amazing. I’d love to see a photo. I’d planned a similar project with an old radio, but it’s one of those things that’s been on my “I’ll get round to it eventually” list for 5 years :)
I’m snap a pic when I get home, I still need to find the right tacky fabric to finish the boarder, but it at least works
