Noooooo, people could then see the repairability before buying it. We can't have that!!!!

I’m pretty sure the animal they used to make transparent stuff went extinct, like the one they used for the original McRib.

That phone. My first love had that phone in her bedroom. I walked 20 miles to see her once when I was 14. Man.

She married my brother a decade later haha.

Fun fact: Transparent electronics are a thing because prisons require radios, TV, etc to be able to be seen inside and companies later realised they looked cool.

Not even transparent. Colorful design, actual individuality, recognizable imagery, etc.

Now, everything have to be like "a letter or two in one color, inside a flat geometric shape in another color", and the most exuberant logo you can find in a well known product is like the firefox icon that just moved from an actually colorful and detailed fox on a clean blue planet like earth to a 3 and a half color based orange circle and blue dot.

This is too woke for half of America now.

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X post by user cybr angel 👾 @cybrxangel reading: society won't heal until we bring back colorful transparent technology Underneath are four images, the top left is 5 iMac G3s arranged in a circle and each with a different colour: blueberry (blue), grape (purple), tangerine (orange), lime (green), and strawberry (red). The top right image is a clear purple Nintendo Game Boy Color. The bottom left image is a see through acrylic landline phone from the 90s. The bottom right image is a clear purple Nintendo 64 with 6 controllers arranged in a semi-circle in front of it in the following clear colours from left to right: blue, watermelon (red and white), green, orange, atomic ice blue, and atomic purple.

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I have my transparent purple Gameboy tucked in a safe place. My husband had me get rid of my Nintendo 64 a few years ago, and I'm still not over it.

I miss this asthetic so freaking much...

I love when technology looked like candy. Now all we get is these boxes

They brought this back for the Xbox controller https://a.co/d/4PlCsxi

I got one it's so sweet

It'll work, just shove em full of RGB lights and they'd fit in perfect with modern builds.

To be fair tempered glass is still going strong among gaming PCs.

steam deck has it, steam deck fixing society

I found a freaking NEWTON in a desk drawer at work last week. With power adapter, but no stylus. Still works though!

The Fairphone 3 has a translucent case, and I will never understand why they didn't stick with this design. It's like childhood memories in phone form.

Is this posted by the guy I accidentally had sex with in Cyberpunk 2077?

Minimalism sucks

Yeah nah, let's leave that in the past

Ahhh, I can taste the phtalate cancer from here.

Nothing Phone

Just after that wave my so got an eMac, a toilet shaped jet engine with a screen.

Back in the day it was cool to see the magic inside, today IDK.

I'd put more money out there for my phone to come with a transparent case like this. I think they design everything against what's trending which is white, grey, or black with solid colored LEDs. Either that or go full gamer and put in the rainbow LEDs. 80s/90s had it right with color options.

There's a few Nintendo Switch mods that have done this, you can buy the shells.

I kinda want a smartphone that is made of the same plastic that a gameboy was made of. Something like the iPhone 5C, but with a rougher texture.