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Technology design peaked here:
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.
Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.
Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat
When they say it lasts, they don’t mean it stays in the exact same condition and shape.
Well, you’re not wrong…
Most of it is in my balls now.
Now they’re technically not blanks 🙏
🎊
Microplastics are stored in the balls.
That blue ps2 looks dope af
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
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.
One of these is not like the others
There is one thing In here not like the others…
Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
I’m 'bout to bust
RGB, plastic edition.
Black is beautiful 🖤
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
Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…
fun followup of the day: a “factoid” is something that isn’t true, but is presented as being true. go ahead, look it up!
Funner follow-up: this definition is correct and true to the original usage of “factoid”, however, the alternative definition meaning “a small or minor fact” has been used often enough that it’s generally accepted, and appears in several dictionaries. Ain’t English grand!?
Sources:
inflammable means flammable?! what a country…
Interesting. I might research that on the toilet tonight, or just drop the word factoid from my vocabulary.
Regardless, clowns still have to go to college, while politicians do not. Fun fact of the day!
i wrote it on the toilet before bed, so that seems apt.
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!
Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
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.
@Stamets I’ll admit it looks cool, but leaving your clear Gameboy out in the sun was a bad idea.
Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.
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.
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.
