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Reply 20 of 103, by Anonymous Coward

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Light grey? It's beige damnit!

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Reply 21 of 103, by Errius

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Caluser2000 wrote:

Should be a fun thread. I don't think I have any thing that fancy. I'm more a beigh/black/grey kind a guy 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg

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Around the 2000s, there also was this cool Linux PDA, an Agenda V3, also in awesome transparent housing!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_VR3

I have the transparent Palm III PDA in my collection. I'm away from home at the moment but it looks like this.

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Reply 23 of 103, by WR3ND

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Anonymous Coward wrote:

Light grey? It's beige damnit!

I generally consider beige to be 'warm' tinted (like most older yellowing plastics, etc.); I have some 'cool' tinted grey stuff as well.

YMMV

Reply 24 of 103, by Jo22

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Errius wrote:
Jo22 wrote:

Around the 2000s, there also was this cool Linux PDA, an Agenda V3, also in awesome transparent housing!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_VR3

I have the transparent Palm III PDA in my collection. I'm away from home at the moment but it looks like this.

Cool! I had got a Handspring Visor once that looked quite similar. 😁

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Reply 25 of 103, by VileR

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2010s "tactical"/truck/meat-head design language

Jeez. That wouldn't look out of place controlling the sentry guns in Aliens. 🤣

I don't think this style is/was ever prevalent as a trend, but if you held a gun to my head, I'd take it over the "everything is a jellybean" design language. 🤣

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Reply 26 of 103, by Jo22

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Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

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Reply 27 of 103, by Jo22

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Reply 31 of 103, by Bruninho

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WR3ND wrote:

Sorry, I went from light grey/beige ('80s to '90s) to silver metallic (2000s) to black (2005+).

I don't even have any RGB stuff on my new gear. 😊

Same here. I prefer the 80's to 90's designs with light grey/beige colors or the black 2005's design.

I am not a fan of the aluminium finish Apple has been doing either for their macbooks, particularly the silver metallic one. Mostly because when I am in a cold room, the aluminium is so cold that it freezes my hands when I am typing on it.

That made me think about applying a skin to my macbook pro. I loved this one - although I wouldn't go for the rainbow logo on it, just a dark grey logo, because it is too much colorful for my taste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaXAaBWeLGk

EDIT: But actually when I was a 90's kid I had a phone in my room that was transparent:

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Eventually I ditched it after a few months. I couldn't stand its design. Was a gift from one of my parents...

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Reply 32 of 103, by SpectriaForce

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Are you a boy?

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Or a girl?

No transgender N64 over here 🤣

Reply 34 of 103, by SpectriaForce

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Tiido wrote:
I love (colored) transparent plastic ~ http://www.tmeeco.eu/BitShit/YellowDCstuff.jpg http://www.tmeeco.eu/Fileden/DCCTRLBRITE.j […]
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I love (colored) transparent plastic ~
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Are they original? I have never seen a translucent Dreamcast nor controller.

Reply 35 of 103, by Tiido

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Dreamcast shell is aftermarket but controllers are all original, they were sold in a variety of colors.

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Reply 37 of 103, by SpectriaForce

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Tiido wrote:

Dreamcast shell is aftermarket but controllers are all original, they were sold in a variety of colors.

Never seen the translucent Dreamcast controllers in my country, but the Dreamcast is a rarity over here anyway.

Reply 38 of 103, by Tiido

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Pretty much all of them came from USA. There were some released in EU with transparent bottom side but unfortunately they're incredibly uncommon, or were when I was trying to get them. Nowdays I don't really care enough to get more 🤣.

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Reply 39 of 103, by Big Pink

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Eventually I ditched it after a few months. I couldn't stand its design. Was a gift from one of my parents...

I oddly like that. The un-integrated internals of a phone are more tangible than other examples in this thread, which remain magical black boxes in spite of the chips being visible. I look at that and think, if I had those components I could build my own phone.

Or maybe I'm just imagining Melissa Joan Hart picking that up on Nickelodeon in 1993.

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