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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stamets@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        fun followup of the day: a “factoid” is something that isn’t true, but is presented as being true. go ahead, look it up!

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wrong, you can get colored and transparent cases for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.

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    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Got a picture?

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    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I got one in ‘atomic purple’ because that is the most rad color.

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      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Still perplexed Nintendo hasn’t released atomic purple joycons.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Literally just got a semi-transparent Xbox controller. My kid loves looking at the rumble motor moving inside.

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    • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also cheap emulation devices like anbernic keeping atomic purple alive

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That translucent blue plastic becomes about the most absolute brittle shit over time. When they say plastic lasts hundreds if not thousands of years, translucent blue plastic missed that memo.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When they say it lasts, they don’t mean it stays in the exact same condition and shape.

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      • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Most of it is in my balls now.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, you’re not wrong…

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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 :)

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    RGB, plastic edition.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The original iMac being the device that kicked off the colored, translucent plastic craze of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

    There was a translucent George Foreman grill!

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    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Translucent George Foreman grill? For real?

      Did it even have a power switch? Mine isn’t translucent, but my OG George Foreman grill does not even have a power switch, you literally gotta unplug that mofo if you don’t want your house to burn down.

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  • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never forget what they took from us

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    • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Games that HAD to be complete and bug free when released.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They certainly weren’t

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  • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That blue ps2 looks dope af

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technology design peaked here:

    Image

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It just looks so… technological

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  • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One of these is not like the others

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  • dmention7@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hot take… This trend was just a modern (at its time) reimagining of the TRUE peak of tech design: 80s era clear cases with brightly colored interior components.

    For example: thisiswhyimbroke.com/retro-transparent-neon-phone…

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    • Zomg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fun fact, you can relive the old days by going to prison and being on good behavior to get a transparent TV or radio/CD player in your cell very similar to this.

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      • dmention7@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        13" TVs for prisoners!?

        Talk about cruel and unusual punishement

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me “cheap garbage” vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these

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    • Snoopey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?

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      • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was just a nibble!

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We were all tempted. It’s okay.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ?

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  • Waldschrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, I am really happy we passed that transparent bubblegum-toy style. My hope is that we move towards physical buttons again, at least where they make sense (cars for example).

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wish granted. Now everything comes with those cheap shitty bubble-like buttons that are incomprehensibly stiff and only work if you press at just the right angle with just the right amount of force, and there’s a 50% chance they register twice.

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  • amon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wii would like to chat Image

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    • friendlyman12@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That blue light hit different

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  • bluelander@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, from roughly 1997-2013 according to that image. In that one brief 16 year moment, it peaked.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is one thing In here not like the others…

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  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imo the old Macintosh design is the 1969 VW Beetle/ bus of computers. ✌️☮️🌼

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Argument

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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  • fu@libranet.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    @Stamets I'll admit it looks cool, but leaving your clear Gameboy out in the sun was a bad idea.
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  • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    REAL

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s no 3DO there, though.

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  • Gigliorananomicom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Black is beautiful 🖤

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m 'bout to bust

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  • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey, I still have that exact iMac on my garage!

    It’s got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol

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