Plastics contain a ton of additive chemicals that allow the plastic to take on different properties. These additives are usually sensitive to UV light and slowly breaks down if not in complete darkness. For most plastics, this is not usually an issue because the opaqueness keeps the light from penetrating the surface.
When you use clear plastics such as PET, acrylic, or polycarbonate, the UV light penetrates deep into it and the additives break down. This causes the yellow discoloration that you see in these clear plastic cases.
I don't think that song has been played since the late 80s or early 90s. It used to be common during Halloween but I don't think I've heard it since I was a kid in the 90s.
I always found transparent plastic to be a gimmick. Sure it looks neat, but it's not good for the environment (they add a chemical to make plastic transparent).
Best way to make plastic clear is simply by heating pet up and maintained an even heat throughout while it cools. They don't use extra chemicals. You know nothing of plastics.
Plasticizers are for making plastic flexible, not clear.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So plastic bottles use plasticizers? Do they lower T when consumed?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Bottles are usually made from PET, which does not contain plasticizers.
I swear water from a plastic bottle tastes different than water from glass or metal though, so I generally prefer cans or glass. Then again, cans are also lined with plastic, so you just can't win.
2 years ago
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>I swear water from a plastic bottle tastes different than water from glass or metal though
Same. I can absolutely taste the difference with milk and cannot drink milk out of plastic.
I feel like the design of electronics and hardware in the late 90's early 2000's was reflective of how people viewed technology. Much like it is today. Back then, the see through plastic to show off the internals was eye catching to people. Electronics were seen as like this cool magical shit that was all about the future. Now everything is closed off and hidden because no one really gives a shit so long as it turns on and works. The wonderment of electronics is long gone.
I'd love to get my hands on a PS5 or something with modern day see through plastic that won't fade.
i miss the natural rounder shapes electronics had during that time period
now we just have slabs and such again, maybe slightly rounder but still a rectangle
pic rel is a concept though sadly
i realized since we lost that wonder for electronics that innovation went right down the toilet
Y2K institute's twitter posts so many interesting concepts from that time period, it makes me feel like we missed an entire new renaissance
sure we have AI and whatever other fancy shit, though imo i don't think that alone is enough to make up for what could have been
prison tvs look very nice in spite of their nature
>i realized since we lost that wonder for electronics that innovation went right down the toilet
it's too costly and potentially bankrupting to try and design something away from the norm these days. I miss when companies were willing to do some crazy shit, even if it was only a design change or something.
you can say that for everything now, really
nobody wants to try anything new just keep rehashing the same concepts ad nauseam
i get if it isn't broke don't fix it, but i don't think we were meant to just keep repeating things for years on end like this
but, that's less about tech and more of humanity nonsense
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yeah I mean I'm all for the mentality if something is not broken, don't fix it, but I feel like that was supposed to be from company to company. As in company A has a product that only incrementally changes over time and company B has their own completely different product that changes as well. Not 2 companies with almost identical products trying to steal trade secrets from each other.
In 2010 people discovered that you could just ironically like things instead of actually liking them and it made you automatically immune to cringe (also invented in the 2010s).
this meant no one could ever enjoy anything else, ever again, in perpetuity throughout the universe, or you would be cringe and unbased for genuinely enjoying and being excited about things. "otaku" and "nerd" just became either "weeb" (ironic) or "basedboy cuck" (genuine).
This is a self-perpetuating mental nuke that kills your ability to actually enjoy things. Even the concept of liking seethrough colorful consoles is a rebellious thought that merits a thread on forechan.
You cant enjoy technology, it has to be a vector to express how indifferent and detached you are about owning technology.
Consoles are black. No frills. Black controller. RGB controllers are for teenage gamer that dont know better.
Phones are white. All screen. If you're male your phonecase is one uniform color.
People dont want anything else. They cant.
Now you know. Theres zero difference between a fat 80s trekkie geek and a fat 2010s mlp cringelord and a fat retro gaming basedcuck.
pretty good post bro
you dont name the main reason why people "evolved" to actually become scared of cringe - social media. What if your friends on facebook found out that you like the same tshirt as someone who was being made fun of on tumblr??
I mean you don't even have to go too far back to find designs that were off the beaten path. This is the Sidekick LX from 2009. I think phones and mobile devices overall are pretty crazy as they changed over time.
I miss my slide phone, it had either AIM or MSN but either way it was neat having that with a full keyboard instead of using T9 since my other ones growing up only had that
Around the late 2000's there was a limited element for "slide" phones with physical keyboards as an alternative for vertical "blackberry" style ones or of course, virtual ones (especially after the arrival of the iPhone and Android, but even prior to that there were often resistive touchscreen single touch virtual KBs designed for stylus use primarily ). For instance, I have one of the best - the Nokia N900, which I bought because it was a pure mainline-ish Linux based device. Its really a pity that it was basically driven into the ground ,rather than being a widespread alternative.
I would love for a modern day slider with physical keyboard, but there's no market for it these days. It's why I'm so drawn to phones like the Z fold and the MS Surface Duo. It's just so different.
Around the late 2000's there was a limited element for "slide" phones with physical keyboards as an alternative for vertical "blackberry" style ones or of course, virtual ones (especially after the arrival of the iPhone and Android, but even prior to that there were often resistive touchscreen single touch virtual KBs designed for stylus use primarily ). For instance, I have one of the best - the Nokia N900, which I bought because it was a pure mainline-ish Linux based device. Its really a pity that it was basically driven into the ground ,rather than being a widespread alternative.
>concept
Anon that's literally just a desktop tower
Is the new IQfy meme going to be claiming steve jobs invented the desktop tower because this thing existed?
And if anyone says otherwise you hit em with the old "yes but the popularizers deserve the credit because theirs was the first good one" ignoring that this didn't even *popularize* desktop computers
Oh wait iForgot iToddlers have a cope for that too. "Oh but they 'revolutionized' it!"
>Anon that's literally just a desktop tower
yes but the popularizers deserve the credit because theirs was the first good one. they 'revolutionized' it.
No see the "concept" that's truly revolutionary here isn't just the hardware, it's the idea of hardware like that running macOS.
Like it or not: >running rufus is unironically too hard for most people >even if they can wrap their head around it, it's just uphill from there; linux installer kiosks are just rufus but slightly more obscure, and linux itself, even at its friendliest, is just even more obscure than that >macOS is effectively the only accessible unix
It's unironically revolutionary, and continues indefinitely to be so, that there's a company willing to maintain an alternative to windows *that non-geniuses can actually use*, *and* build a wide variety of computers that come with it preinstalled, mimic the form factor and hardware feature set of comparable windows machines (because, yes, unfortunately, due to a typical person's intellect, a non-apple is effectively a windows machine), *and* give these devices a uniform look that's sleeker than all their counterparts.
gosh what a pretentious non-japanese-speaking layout that is for the kana
first of all, barely anyone in japan even uses kana input, and second of all, spacing apart む like that is just impractical and precisely why the JIS layouts are the way they are
plus, all the good GMK clone sets have kana on them, so it's not like you get a choice
2 years ago
Anonymous
Holy shit you type embarrassingly fricking slow. You've got a couple of fingers just hovering not doing shit. Learn to type homosexual.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>typing with nails
2 years ago
Anonymous
>he can remove his finger nails
2 years ago
Anonymous
>man hands >fake nails >right hand is 99% pressing the space bar
wtfwt
2 years ago
Anonymous
I've seen this webm before but it still annoys me that there are people out there who press space with the index finger. That requires some serious brain damage. I doubt that's even a woman when the face isn't visible. Women have no trouble showing their face.
this.
meanwhile productivity chads like me actually quite the opposite. i use a stock qwerty JIS keyboard WITHOUT the kanas or any japanese letters on my alphanumerics. why? beacuse i can use the extra henkan/muhenkan switch as a layered macros button.
At least the era of glossy surface finishes and glossy displays is over.
But todays fetish for glass side panels for PC cases is a plague i can't stand. Will it ever end?
If you look for a decent case without glass panels, plenty of room for top mounted water cooling and an overall good quality i recommend the Chriftec CW-01B-OP. Bought it for my new setup a few weeks ago, looks fantastic and it even has 3.5/5.25" external drive bays, which many other modern cases lack.
what i really hate about consumer electronics from the previous era is the fake gunmetal/chrome plastic coatings. those things might look good when new, but it never feels good to the touch and once it is scratched it will reveal the cheap plastics underneath. even legendary devices like the Nokia N95 suffers from this.
i might've read somewhere that translucent plastics are no longer viable for electronics due it offers little to no protection against electromagnetic interference, or something like that. any real EE gays can explain?
i think its related to this.
https://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/photonic-reset-of-the-raspberry-pi-2/
some electronics are too sensitive and translucent plastics fricks up the internals when there is a bright flashes of light like lightning
Rectangles and cubes are the worst possible shape for technology. They are pointy and unatural; they look too inorganic because they were obviously designed. The lack of color is also disturbing because we rely a lot on color for visual information. We need to have distinctive objects to interact with, not different shapes and sizes of black, silver and grey techy blocks. This war against color needs to stop.
Frick LCD screens too and frick tech products that require phone apps for interaction especially. Bring back the small green backlit displays.
I don't mind lumpy gooey design even if it's tacky and ugly, but a lot of late 90s and 2000s crap has designs that impede use while also humiliating the user.
I miss translucent electronics housing, but it looks really bad when it fades.
What does it look like when faded?
Does it just yellow and turn a nasty color?
Yeah, it becomes dingy clear yellow. It’s still better than what happens to beige computers/peripherals, I guess.
Plastics contain a ton of additive chemicals that allow the plastic to take on different properties. These additives are usually sensitive to UV light and slowly breaks down if not in complete darkness. For most plastics, this is not usually an issue because the opaqueness keeps the light from penetrating the surface.
When you use clear plastics such as PET, acrylic, or polycarbonate, the UV light penetrates deep into it and the additives break down. This causes the yellow discoloration that you see in these clear plastic cases.
Too much exposure to sunlight will affect it yes.
Still have a full clear original xbox (modded) and still mint with no fade or yellowing.
apparently hydrogen peroxide bath for 24 hours and a UV light will fix it.
this, but I also want the sidekick and Nokia N810 to come back
My translucent tamagochi still looks great
So as long as you keep translucent plastics out of the sun it should hold up
Goes for any plastic really
>trans
>lucent
miss me with that
What design? Everything is black rectangles.
That’s a big finder
>VTECH PHONE: A purple people reacher
i wonder how many people here will recognise that reference
Omnomnom Onions green 😉
I don't think that song has been played since the late 80s or early 90s. It used to be common during Halloween but I don't think I've heard it since I was a kid in the 90s.
that's why it surprised me, it was almost an old reference even when that would have been made
It almost feels like everyone was fricking copying Apple all the fricking time. Glad things chan-
I never had this but it looks awesome.
leave zoomer. IQfy is for millennial chads.
I'm a millenial. I just never had that specific console. I still have my original 8-bit NES though. N64 looks cooler.
this just screams supermax long haul tenant.
I've got a similar CRT from RCA. It only has RF input though, which sucks.
I just picked this bad boy up to replace several 100w inverters. I think off grid living is getting almost doable for most people.
>t. wannabe
>wants to live off grid
>needs an inverter
if you have any equipment that requires AC power consider fricking off IQfy
It's not transparent but do a search for "Oakley Over The Top Sunglasses", that's one of the raddest things I've seen.
Why didn't you just post a picture, on this... imageboard?
PS I chose this particular image because the guy is Black.
UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
Translucent plastic electronics look like shit in pictures but in person look so good
https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/17063689-apple-ipod-5th-gen-30-gb-with-transparent-front
did you really make another ewaste thread
I always found transparent plastic to be a gimmick. Sure it looks neat, but it's not good for the environment (they add a chemical to make plastic transparent).
>but it's not good for the environment (they add a chemical to make plastic transparent).
So it looks cool with zero downsides.
Best way to make plastic clear is simply by heating pet up and maintained an even heat throughout while it cools. They don't use extra chemicals. You know nothing of plastics.
My bad, I thought they added plasticizers which incidentally reduce testosterone (I think?).
Plasticizers are for making plastic flexible, not clear.
So plastic bottles use plasticizers? Do they lower T when consumed?
Bottles are usually made from PET, which does not contain plasticizers.
I swear water from a plastic bottle tastes different than water from glass or metal though, so I generally prefer cans or glass. Then again, cans are also lined with plastic, so you just can't win.
>I swear water from a plastic bottle tastes different than water from glass or metal though
Same. I can absolutely taste the difference with milk and cannot drink milk out of plastic.
Surprisingly China sells a wide variety of translucent cases for many devices so you can always mod your current tech.
**unsurprisingly
That's pretty nostalgic for me.
Ah, the good old days when there were way less people on this planet. Thanks India and China...
I feel like the design of electronics and hardware in the late 90's early 2000's was reflective of how people viewed technology. Much like it is today. Back then, the see through plastic to show off the internals was eye catching to people. Electronics were seen as like this cool magical shit that was all about the future. Now everything is closed off and hidden because no one really gives a shit so long as it turns on and works. The wonderment of electronics is long gone.
I'd love to get my hands on a PS5 or something with modern day see through plastic that won't fade.
i miss the natural rounder shapes electronics had during that time period
now we just have slabs and such again, maybe slightly rounder but still a rectangle
pic rel is a concept though sadly
i realized since we lost that wonder for electronics that innovation went right down the toilet
Y2K institute's twitter posts so many interesting concepts from that time period, it makes me feel like we missed an entire new renaissance
sure we have AI and whatever other fancy shit, though imo i don't think that alone is enough to make up for what could have been
prison tvs look very nice in spite of their nature
>i realized since we lost that wonder for electronics that innovation went right down the toilet
it's too costly and potentially bankrupting to try and design something away from the norm these days. I miss when companies were willing to do some crazy shit, even if it was only a design change or something.
you can say that for everything now, really
nobody wants to try anything new just keep rehashing the same concepts ad nauseam
i get if it isn't broke don't fix it, but i don't think we were meant to just keep repeating things for years on end like this
but, that's less about tech and more of humanity nonsense
yeah I mean I'm all for the mentality if something is not broken, don't fix it, but I feel like that was supposed to be from company to company. As in company A has a product that only incrementally changes over time and company B has their own completely different product that changes as well. Not 2 companies with almost identical products trying to steal trade secrets from each other.
It always amazed me how these overdesigned devices are more easily repairable than the chocolate slabs of glass and plastic we currently use. LMAO
In 2010 people discovered that you could just ironically like things instead of actually liking them and it made you automatically immune to cringe (also invented in the 2010s).
this meant no one could ever enjoy anything else, ever again, in perpetuity throughout the universe, or you would be cringe and unbased for genuinely enjoying and being excited about things. "otaku" and "nerd" just became either "weeb" (ironic) or "basedboy cuck" (genuine).
This is a self-perpetuating mental nuke that kills your ability to actually enjoy things. Even the concept of liking seethrough colorful consoles is a rebellious thought that merits a thread on forechan.
You cant enjoy technology, it has to be a vector to express how indifferent and detached you are about owning technology.
Consoles are black. No frills. Black controller. RGB controllers are for teenage gamer that dont know better.
Phones are white. All screen. If you're male your phonecase is one uniform color.
People dont want anything else. They cant.
Now you know. Theres zero difference between a fat 80s trekkie geek and a fat 2010s mlp cringelord and a fat retro gaming basedcuck.
pretty good post bro
you dont name the main reason why people "evolved" to actually become scared of cringe - social media. What if your friends on facebook found out that you like the same tshirt as someone who was being made fun of on tumblr??
I mean you don't even have to go too far back to find designs that were off the beaten path. This is the Sidekick LX from 2009. I think phones and mobile devices overall are pretty crazy as they changed over time.
I miss my slide phone, it had either AIM or MSN but either way it was neat having that with a full keyboard instead of using T9 since my other ones growing up only had that
I would love for a modern day slider with physical keyboard, but there's no market for it these days. It's why I'm so drawn to phones like the Z fold and the MS Surface Duo. It's just so different.
Around the late 2000's there was a limited element for "slide" phones with physical keyboards as an alternative for vertical "blackberry" style ones or of course, virtual ones (especially after the arrival of the iPhone and Android, but even prior to that there were often resistive touchscreen single touch virtual KBs designed for stylus use primarily ). For instance, I have one of the best - the Nokia N900, which I bought because it was a pure mainline-ish Linux based device. Its really a pity that it was basically driven into the ground ,rather than being a widespread alternative.
Best concept out of this era.
>concept
Anon that's literally just a desktop tower
Is the new IQfy meme going to be claiming steve jobs invented the desktop tower because this thing existed?
And if anyone says otherwise you hit em with the old "yes but the popularizers deserve the credit because theirs was the first good one" ignoring that this didn't even *popularize* desktop computers
Oh wait iForgot iToddlers have a cope for that too. "Oh but they 'revolutionized' it!"
>Anon that's literally just a desktop tower
yes but the popularizers deserve the credit because theirs was the first good one. they 'revolutionized' it.
lol yeah, they just make fancy computers but people think that it's the best thing since sliced bread
What the frick are you complaining about. This is a tech design thread and that's a desktop with a certain design concept.
No see the "concept" that's truly revolutionary here isn't just the hardware, it's the idea of hardware like that running macOS.
Like it or not:
>running rufus is unironically too hard for most people
>even if they can wrap their head around it, it's just uphill from there; linux installer kiosks are just rufus but slightly more obscure, and linux itself, even at its friendliest, is just even more obscure than that
>macOS is effectively the only accessible unix
It's unironically revolutionary, and continues indefinitely to be so, that there's a company willing to maintain an alternative to windows *that non-geniuses can actually use*, *and* build a wide variety of computers that come with it preinstalled, mimic the form factor and hardware feature set of comparable windows machines (because, yes, unfortunately, due to a typical person's intellect, a non-apple is effectively a windows machine), *and* give these devices a uniform look that's sleeker than all their counterparts.
I think that modern consumer electronics design is great! I love how sleek and minimalistic most devices have become.
Custom chink keyboards are bringing back those coloured translucent plastic styles.
gosh what a pretentious non-japanese-speaking layout that is for the kana
first of all, barely anyone in japan even uses kana input, and second of all, spacing apart む like that is just impractical and precisely why the JIS layouts are the way they are
don't care, looks cool
plus, all the good GMK clone sets have kana on them, so it's not like you get a choice
Holy shit you type embarrassingly fricking slow. You've got a couple of fingers just hovering not doing shit. Learn to type homosexual.
>typing with nails
>he can remove his finger nails
>man hands
>fake nails
>right hand is 99% pressing the space bar
wtfwt
I've seen this webm before but it still annoys me that there are people out there who press space with the index finger. That requires some serious brain damage. I doubt that's even a woman when the face isn't visible. Women have no trouble showing their face.
gosh what an autist
this.
meanwhile productivity chads like me actually quite the opposite. i use a stock qwerty JIS keyboard WITHOUT the kanas or any japanese letters on my alphanumerics. why? beacuse i can use the extra henkan/muhenkan switch as a layered macros button.
where do i get this
keycap set is no longer sold and neither is the case, thems the breaks, better luck next time
right, well what's it called? i've never seen a mechanical keyboard with that sort of speckle colour before.
i dont know the keyboard case name, but the keycap set is called GMK laser if you're interested.
Caps-
https://drop.com/buy/drop-mito-gmk-laser-custom-keycap-set
Case-
https://kono.store/products/kat-cyberspace?variant=32095260704851
These suck unless you pair them with exactly ONE matching GMK colorway that exists.
pure soul
It probably isn't a popular opinion on IQfy but I quite like modern electronics design, it's simple and elegant.
yeah I love generic black slate device #9289823198-23409230-940-423
And I love pavlovian malding statment #N16634
Transparent shells rarely showed off anything interesting.
Now why there is no transparent smartphone?
its pointless now imagine those new transparent earbuds (forgot the name) recently its shit
Samsung galaxy phones with glass backs can have the plastic color layer removed to reveal a transparent back.
There isn't much to look at.
Looks cool
Looks good now only tint it a slight bit in another color and we have something great.
Firefox made one. its vaporware.
At least the era of glossy surface finishes and glossy displays is over.
But todays fetish for glass side panels for PC cases is a plague i can't stand. Will it ever end?
If you look for a decent case without glass panels, plenty of room for top mounted water cooling and an overall good quality i recommend the Chriftec CW-01B-OP. Bought it for my new setup a few weeks ago, looks fantastic and it even has 3.5/5.25" external drive bays, which many other modern cases lack.
>Chriftec
>Chieftec
Fixed.
I want clear electronics made out of glass instead of plastic
what i really hate about consumer electronics from the previous era is the fake gunmetal/chrome plastic coatings. those things might look good when new, but it never feels good to the touch and once it is scratched it will reveal the cheap plastics underneath. even legendary devices like the Nokia N95 suffers from this.
That's not so bad. What really sucks are all the rubbery bits that disintegrate to a sticky mess after a few years.
i hate that smooth velvety plastic junk, just feeling it when it's brand new you get a sense of despair
right? living areas are becoming smaller and smaller, you'd think some company would jump on the modular trend and take it a step further
Everything is black and filled to brim with rgb. So not very original.
Not colorful enough. I really like blue and red colored tech, but now everything is just dark colors because they want to be "serious" and edgy.
i might've read somewhere that translucent plastics are no longer viable for electronics due it offers little to no protection against electromagnetic interference, or something like that. any real EE gays can explain?
i think its related to this.
https://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/photonic-reset-of-the-raspberry-pi-2/
some electronics are too sensitive and translucent plastics fricks up the internals when there is a bright flashes of light like lightning
Rectangles and cubes are the worst possible shape for technology. They are pointy and unatural; they look too inorganic because they were obviously designed. The lack of color is also disturbing because we rely a lot on color for visual information. We need to have distinctive objects to interact with, not different shapes and sizes of black, silver and grey techy blocks. This war against color needs to stop.
Frick LCD screens too and frick tech products that require phone apps for interaction especially. Bring back the small green backlit displays.
The transparent casings were cool, but these "rubber buttons" can go to hell
Why don't we have technology that tries to look like furniture any more?
Get out of here, LGR
>implying modern tech is designed to last long enough that fading is an issue
I don't mind lumpy gooey design even if it's tacky and ugly, but a lot of late 90s and 2000s crap has designs that impede use while also humiliating the user.
i know the reason and I still don't give a shit; all tech starts to look bad when it ages anyways.
frick off you contrarian moron nobody cares.