Do you remember colors? So I’m sitting here, doing some writing at the coffee shop like I do every day. I’ve got my Macbook. My portable headphone amp. My headphones. And I look down and realize they’re silver, black, and white. all Like, that photo would look nearly the same if I drained all of the color information out of it. Let’s try it. The warm hue of the nearby sunlight is gone, and the colors on the youtube page I was looking at are gone, of course. But my technology stuff looks exactly the same. In a world full of RGB lights, D-brand skins, and style headphones available in you can think of…how did I get here? Why have I personally rebelled against colors? And why have so many other people? every color HyperX Cloud Headphones: Black, white, and silver edition. (Actually the CloudX, but these colors were once again unchanged by the removal of the color info from the photo) Caring about the appearance of your gear is a weird slippery slope. Once you buy thing you like the look of, it’s easier to continue to get stuff that then matches that thing. one I the way the 12-inch Macbook looks. It’s probably my favorite-looking computer of all time. Because I’m not cool enough to pull off the Rose Gold or Gold colors, I got the Silver one. really like that way, more accessories from companies would actually my computer. Plus, non-Apple match It seems like Black has become the default base color for everything tech. While that’s better than the classic computer-beige of the nineties, it’s a little bit weird in a world where anything can one of 16.8 million different colors. easily be I should probably have a whole rainbow of computer products, but I almost always gravitate towards the black or silver option. I’m already too far down this road to escape it, I guess? The one recent exception was the blue camo version of the Logitech G433…but only because it came with an extra free accessory bag. How crazy is that? I only bought something with a fun color because it came with a free bag. And I’m not even using those headphones to write right now. I can see three other people with laptops here at the cafe. Two of them have black Windows laptops, and one has a silver Macbook air inside a matching grey portable folio case thing. Wouldn’t it be if we all had vibrant, neon-colored laptops instead? Or laptops with slick glossy car paint finishes? Or something? so much cooler In this technological world that centers more and more every day around self-expression and online creativity, most of the devices we use to all that creating are clad in relatively lifeless tones. do I’m not saying it’s to like these colors. I’m actually how my monochrome setup looks. It has a film noir quality to it. bad way into So I acknowledge that is a factor. steely coolness It’s just that, even in the mainstream tech market, these shades became the norm. People got about the Jet Black iPhone, and black is consistently the best-selling color of numerous different tech products. interesting so excited Heck, I excitedly bought the limited edition triple-black Bose QC25 headphones when those came out. My home computer case is gray and black. Do we not actually to stand out? Are we all too far down the road for this to ever change? Or is the general allure of the perceived coolness of these metallic tones just too powerful to overcome? want I don’t have the answers to any of this. But I know that it’s worked for me, over and over again, for whatever reason. Please click the heart if you liked this rambling thing! Thanks for spending a little of your time with my thoughts.
