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@toonces do you recall the developer edition palm pilot that was see through

@Citizenkahn @toonces looks like my old game boy except mine was clear purple.

@toonces i don't know why we ever stopped doing this in the first place

@toonces Used to hav e a receiver from an old phone rigged to IN/OUT jacks on the sound card back in the day. That s**t was rad. Gosh, memory lane here we go. Come to think of it I used to rock, even if it was just me who knew or cared :D

@toonces Is it too much to ask to want a big ol hand crank phone as a cell phone backpack?

@toonces I had a phone very much like that in my bedroom as a kid. This was before the internet was really a thing. But I loved that phone.

@toonces @OkieSpaceQueen
I had that phone.
Innstead of vis txparency, give us a damm linux machine in our pockets that WE can control instead of th corpotate owners.
Thankyou.

@toonces with a 3 week battery!

@toonces I used to have a transparent Nokia 3310 - does that count?

@toonces the Nothing phone: https://us.nothing.tech/pages/phone-1

@toonces The Clarissa phone!!

@toonces would buy

@toonces not exactly the same aesthetic, but the Nothing Phone1 had a sort of updated version of that idea. Much less colorful though.

@toonces that phone is so 80’s. I had a Swatch that looked like that once.

@toonces This isn't the same thing by a long shot, but D-Brand makes 'transparent' case stickers that look pretty rad
https://dbrand.com/shop/special-edition/teardown

@toonces
My first mobile phone was closer to that than any modern phone.

@toonces @lil_lost I have that phone on the wall behind my desk and it's Bluetooth enabled, heh.

Sometimes I take my zoom meetings with the audio going through that phone

@toonces

A company called Polytron Technologies, in 2013, actually tried to do even better.

@toonces I miss clear plastic electronics. They were cool.

@toonces There is this one, not the same of course but retro cool https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

@toonces also: why aren't we seeing this in sci-fi movies and games?! D:

@toonces I still have it in my collection i think ~:)
https://chaos.social/@SebiPanther/107110527451776513

@toonces
I had this phone as a teen and took it with me to college. It lasted a long time! I particularly loved that it lit up when it rang so I could turn the ringer off and still tell when I was getting a call. Still miss that phone…

@toonces I miss the era of translucent electronics