12 Jan
2002
12 Jan
'02
2:40 a.m.
You can embed things into resin with PlasticCast - Hobby Lobby sells it. I
wonder how the buyer plans on changing the battery inside the embedded clock
circuti when it goes out?
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Allain
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:33 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Ugly Computers (Was: RE: Appropritate comic strip....)
The design isn't all that bad but that translucent
plastic is ignorant
in my opinion - like the see through phones - who wants to see the
guts of machines and electronics,
Well, if classiccmpers aren't going for it, who will? It may be
a reverse thing, that people who Can't Possibly open a machine
themselves need to pay extra to be able to see it.
On the translucent thing, theres an artist that is selling
a mass of wires in a blob of epoxy as a 'cellphone' for
$3500. Seemed like a neat idea until it was revealed
that the electronics were nothing but a digital clock.
http://store.yahoo.com/whitneystore/telephonex.html
http://store3.yimg.com/I/whitneystore_1658_211315
John A.