The color of cool: Why does so much tech gear suddenly glow blue?
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The Color of Cool
Why does so much tech gear suddenly glow blue?
I thought they were going to talk about how Apple's original iMac in 1998 started it all. But no. Not at all. They don't even mention it once. Can you believe this? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Lolo
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The Color of Cool
Why does so much tech gear suddenly glow blue?
I thought they were going to talk about how Apple's original iMac in 1998 started it all. But no. Not at all. They don't even mention it once. Can you believe this? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Lolo
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<strong>I just saw the following article at <a href="http://www.business2.com/" target="_blank">http://www.business2.com/</a> :
The Color of Cool
Why does so much tech gear suddenly glow blue?
I thought they were going to talk about how Apple's original iMac in 1998 started it all. But no. Not at all. They don't even mention it once. Can you believe this? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Lolo
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Perhaps the cost of Blue LED's has finally come down enough to incorporate them...I have a blue led keychain light (not like the trendy ones, one from the Electronic goldmine and mine is brighter!) We all kno blue LED's cost more because of um, well they cost more. Perhaps they didn't mention apple, because I can't think of an apple product with a blue light...apple was green and orang, now migrated to white though. I don't really see how Apple would have anything to do with this...just because of the iMac every new color trend isn't because of it...or is it?!
Similarly, green can be relaxing and red makes you hungry. Colors can have all kinds of effects on people.
<strong>I thought they were going to talk about how Apple's original iMac in 1998 started it all. But no. Not at all. They don't even mention it once. Can you believe this? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
I fail to see how the iMac had anything to do with this.
<strong>Similarly, green can be relaxing and red makes you hungry. Colors can have all kinds of effects on people.</strong><hr></blockquote>
you can make people crazy, only using light.
personally, i'd like to see more purple.
it could also have to do with the rate of change...
these lights aren't actually blue, we're moving so fast relativistically that PC components just seem blueshifted before we slam into them at our accelerated Apple pace
if you look at old technology, there is no colour apparent, it's only our relativistic speed that makes them appear redshifted as we move away from them towards more advanced gear at the nearly light-speed velocity of Moore's Law exponential progress
plus, intel has for years stamped "veto" on any flickering yellow or red that subconsciously suggests the crackling fireplace of baked chips
<strong>I've always liked blue LEDs and other lights on all things tech. I guess the world has finally caught up to me. Ah, the life of a trendsetter is a taxing one, better come up with something else now...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hah, I know how you feel, almost to the letter. You want to be different, so you do something weird, then in a year everyone is wear the same damn jacket that you bought a year ago.
Anyway, in order to have a white LED, the blue LED had to exist first, I'm pretty sure. A lot of interior car lights are white LED's now. I know because for a long time I've wanted to replace the incandescents in my car with red LEDs. Can't find red ones, though.
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />