Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
I will take no arguments
Submitted 3 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Mac@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Wrong, you can get colored and transparent cases for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Got a picture?
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I got one in ‘atomic purple’ because that is the most rad color.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Still perplexed Nintendo hasn’t released atomic purple joycons.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Literally just got a semi-transparent Xbox controller. My kid loves looking at the rumble motor moving inside.
sirico@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Also cheap emulation devices like anbernic keeping atomic purple alive
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
When they say it lasts, they don’t mean it stays in the exact same condition and shape.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well, you’re not wrong…
Donkter@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 months 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.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 months 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 :)
Gork@lemm.ee 3 months ago
RGB, plastic edition.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months 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!
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Cheems@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Never forget what they took from us
SolidShake@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Games that HAD to be complete and bug free when released.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
They certainly weren’t
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 3 months ago
That blue ps2 looks dope af
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
It just looks so… technological
Rinox@feddit.it 3 months ago
One of these is not like the others
dmention7@lemm.ee 3 months 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…
Zomg@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
dmention7@lemm.ee 3 months ago
13" TVs for prisoners!?
Talk about cruel and unusual punishement
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
Snoopey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It was just a nibble!
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
We were all tempted. It’s okay.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 months ago
?
Waldschrat@lemmy.world 3 months 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).
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
amon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
friendlyman12@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That blue light hit different
bluelander@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yes, from roughly 1997-2013 according to that image. In that one brief 16 year moment, it peaked.
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There is one thing In here not like the others…
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Imo the old Macintosh design is the 1969 VW Beetle/ bus of computers. ✌️☮️🌼
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Argument
Voyajer@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
fu@libranet.de 3 months ago
inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
REAL
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s no 3DO there, though.
Gigliorananomicom@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Black is beautiful 🖤
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m 'bout to bust
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Hey, I still have that exact iMac on my garage!
It’s got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 months 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
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…
lime@feddit.nu 3 months 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!