Transparent plastics are the tastiest!
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I had every one of these items including a transparent teal pager. i didn't have many friends nobody ever paged me but if you were trying to fit in you thought it might help. My clear swatch was blue, had the little rubber face guard on it!
I did like the conair phones though I took the one pictured in the op image and turned it into a lineman's handset (thanks 2600!). They were doing new home construction across the street from my home and I snuck over there in the night, hooked my handset up to the service drop and called 1-900 sex lines to troll the gals. Only they were getting paid and did not give a fuck they were happy to keep 13yo me on the line. I screwed something up and caused a huge spark and small boom and never went back because i was worried i had damaged something and they would be looking for me.
Lol, that's fucking great!
My missus got a set of Slime VR trackers and they're all transparent purple plastic. Very 90s.
That watch is a Swatch and they still make new transparent models, I got one a few months back and posted it to the watch sub.
Why did they stop ?
Truly. But I can't guess why.
OP how the fuck could you forget these
There's a whole series of Xbox controllers like this. I have the clear one and it's fucking dope.
I deeply miss my glacier blue n64. I keep hoping for a shell for steak deck in that color.
I too yearn for a glacier blue shell for my steak deck
Mmmm. Steak.
The Steak Deck. When you want to enjoy a perfectly grilled T-Bone on a transatlantic flight
You can buy aftermarket shells like that, or very similar, I just worry the fit and finish won't be quite as nice
I've seen them but can't find any in that color.
Oh bummer, I hope you find the right color some day :)
I am really hoping someone makes a repopped shell for the analogue 3d and the 8bitdo controllers. I would absolutely splash for an og dk green set.
Fun fact: some of these are made specifically for US prisons because you can't hide contraband in them.
I love the idea that a product was created to prevent prisoners from smuggling heroin, but then someone said "You know, I bet that would sell great at Sharper Image."
Welp, that's enough dystopian reality for me today. I was actually hoping to have these for repairability and easier chip identification, but nope, built for prisons you say...
Yeah. They are often very locked down and lack features you would normally expect - especially connectivity and configurability. There's a Youtube vid where a guy gets hold of one and the hoops he had to go through to install his own OS and get it to run some games... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRoRPiDOtUg
Memory unlocked with that Memorex cassette.
Had some of those memorex cassettes
Prison commissary type beat
Very meh
I would love one of those coloful macbooks from the 90s with current technology.
Most clear things will look bad after a short time of use, if you have to touch them. They will get scratched or greasy and dirt will become visible in hard to clean areas.
Had none of that with my clear gameboy pocket, that boy was plugged into a wall socket most of the time because of how much pokemon i played on it.
But tbh i wasn't really a greasy kid, i remember friends controllers which were sticky af and made me not want to play because of how gross it made me feel.
The coloured ones usually hold up better
I had an atomic purple gameboy at one point and I miss that thing dearly.
I really enjoy seeing the components of a thing and most of my mechanical keyboards have translucent or semi-translucent cases.
They’re not high-tech, but “demonstrator” editions of fountain pens also hit this vibe.
And if anyone is curious, I’m pretty sure the watch in this image is a Swatch JellyFish (or an imitation). Swatch still makes watches like this, but this style is called Clearly Gent now.