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.
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.
Got a picture?
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 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
RGB, plastic edition.
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!
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
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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Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
Never forget what they took from us
Games that HAD to be complete and bug free when released.
They certainly weren’t
That blue ps2 looks dope af
One of these is not like the others
Technology design peaked here:
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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It just looks so… technological
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
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.
