Never forget what they took from us
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.
Technology design peaked here:
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.
Hey, I still have that exact iMac on my garage!
It’s got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol
Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)
Wrong, you can get colored and transparent shells for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.
)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.
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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REAL
The iMac started this.
I definitely had a translucent tape player and clock radio in 1995.
Gigapet : Am I a joke to you?
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.
Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.
Yeah. Love that round fucking mouse, and that computer with a space heating, ESD producing CRT crammed into the same chassis. Those things were fucking garbage.
Ok, fine, Graphite iMac G3 is perfection of form over function. That better?
Never actually had one, always wanted one. I did use the hockey puck mouse at school, and agree that it was fucking terrible. Can’t really speak to the esd issues from the CRT, didn’t use it often/long enough for that to affect me, though I can certainly see how it could have been a problem. Most computers are some level of space heaters, as far as that goes, especially if you’ve got a decent GPU, so I’m not sure I’d really knock it too much for that unless it was just really super egregious.
I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.
Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…
fun followup of the day: a “factoid” is something that isn’t true, but is presented as being true. go ahead, look it up!
Interesting. I might research that on the toilet tonight, or just drop the word factoid from my vocabulary.
Regardless, clowns still have to go to college, while politicians do not. Fun fact of the day!
i wrote it on the toilet before bed, so that seems apt.
Initially I agreed, but actually I think it stands. The design is similar enough, regardless of era. Honestly, I really do wish this kind of design would come back
