Yes, from roughly 1997-2013 according to that image. In that one brief 16 year moment, it peaked.
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: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/retro-transparent-neon-phone/
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.
13" TVs for prisoners!?
Talk about cruel and unusual punishement
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).
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.
Imo the old Macintosh design is the 1969 VW Beetle/ bus of computers. ✌️☮️🌼
Wii would like to chat
That blue light hit different
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100% agree
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You’re a fan of the half-transparent aesthetic? I’m not.
Never forget what they took from us
Games that HAD to be complete and bug free when released.
They certainly weren’t
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
Wrong, you can get colored and transparent shells for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.
)I got one in ‘atomic purple’ because that is the most rad color.
Still perplexed Nintendo hasn’t released atomic purple joycons.
Literally just got a semi-transparent Xbox controller. My kid loves looking at the rumble motor moving inside.
Also cheap emulation devices like anbernic keeping atomic purple alive
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?
I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.
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
Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
Technology design peaked here:
