The color of cool: Why does so much tech gear suddenly glow blue?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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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  • Reply 1 of 11
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    [quote]Originally posted by lolo:

    <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



    <a href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,44549,FF.html?cnn=yes"; target="_blank">http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,44549,FF.html?cnn=yes</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;



    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?!

  • Reply 2 of 11
    Actually, it's a pretty well known fact in the graphics world that the color blue is comforting yet energizing. That might have something to do with this, but I'm not sure.



    Similarly, green can be relaxing and red makes you hungry. Colors can have all kinds of effects on people.
  • Reply 3 of 11
    [quote]Originally posted by lolo:

    <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.
  • Reply 4 of 11
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <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.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    rooroo Posts: 162member
    blue is also north america's favorite color, and one of the few colors (if not the only) that does not have a negative connotation in any culture. color trends come and go, and everyone uses color forecasters, so i don't think apple was necessarily innovating, but instead jumping on the color trend early.



    personally, i'd like to see more purple.
  • Reply 6 of 11
    cubs23cubs23 Posts: 324member
    I recently ran across a product available to the mac that has a blue led light. It is the powermate usb multimedia controller. I actually posted a question about the product a half an hour ago. I thought that was ironic, reading your post after I had just posted a question of my own about a product with a blue led light.
  • Reply 7 of 11
    but aren't we indoctrinated in our consumer society to expect the blue light special?



    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
  • Reply 8 of 11
    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    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...
  • Reply 9 of 11
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    Blue is a colour both liked by males and females
  • Reply 10 of 11
    [quote]Originally posted by G4Dude:

    <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.
  • Reply 11 of 11
    jmoneyjmoney Posts: 133member
    Yea blue is real badass



    <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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