You could spray-paint only half of them black, half of them white. Or ideally, you’d throw in some shades of gray and all kinds of other colors, too. There’s lots of ways to dodge an apparent bias without flopping all the way to an opposite bias.
I’d do 'em half and half like those aliens in that one Star Trek episode.
Most devices are actually black but Apple tends to make white products (even if they do offer other colours, it’s the white version in their ads) to differentiate themselves from other products.
Because Apple puts a strong emphasis on marketing, a device that has white casing is seen as new and more advanced than other products. So when companies are promoting a new technology they will tend to make it white to piggy back on Apple’s extensive marketing.
I mean look at that photo of that robot. They’d probably need to round out the edges a little more to make people feel like it’s something that Apple would make but there is some degree of association there.
There’s probably some influence from science fiction too, but the root cause of the aesthetic of the robots in things like the Portal games can probably be traced back to Apple as well. I don’t recall robots in science fiction looking this way until after Apple went this direction in their product design.
a device that has white casing is seen as new and more advanced than other products
Polished chrome or go home!
Shit, and here I was thinking I like white robots because white is my second favorite color. Damn, that makes me racist, doesn’t it?
ermagerd, are you telling me that if I add a website to “Favorites,” they all disappear and get replaced?!?!?!
Yes. Any website not favored is erased from browser history.
Show no bias! Favor all or favor none!
This but unironically. Its a bitch to keep clean and exhausts my eyes to look at for long periods of time.
Let’s not be pedantic. White is a color.
Yeah, yeah, white is composed of all wavelengths, just like green is composed of the yellow wavelength and the blue wavelength.
green is composed of the yellow wavelength and the blue wavelength
- You are confusing wavelengths and photoreceptors. All the colors in the rainbow have a wavelength - both yellow and green. There are colors, like pink, that don’t have their own wavelength - and white is one of these colors.
- Between green and yellow, yellow is the one who doesn’t have its own photoreceptor in the human eye and thus the yellow we see is actually composed of red and green.
- The
yellow + blue = greenthing is a concept of subtractive colors - which means the formula is actuallywhite - yellow - blue = green.
Green has its own wavelength, 500–565nm. It’s pink that doesn’t have one and is a mix between violet and red wavelengths.
Sign my petition to make all robots neon colored.
