• Fun fact: Transparent electronics are a thing because prisons require radios, TV, etc to be able to be seen inside and companies later realised they looked cool.

      • Hup!
        link
        fedilink
        English
        4
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        The marketing team realized that society isn’t cool enough to buy enough of them to reliably profit off it.

      • @Mamertine@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        711 months ago

        IMO it’s more “thanks prison industrial complex”.

        The prisoners are just there to satisfy the funding.

    • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      611 months ago

      I thought they’d also test the moulds with clear plastic so it was obvious if there were internal defects due to things like poor flow into part of the mould