This transparent fridge was part of a range of see through household goods by National Electronics' Invention Station in Japan.
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Acrylic cases, cut aways and even solid glass mechanisms, allow for transparent enclosures where you can see the intricate workings of a machine.
This tradition of ’skeleton’ cases comes from watch making, but there are versions of everything from Nikon cameras to cars that show off their innards. In putting together this collection we were trying to imagine if you could have a fully glass house (several have been designed, none built) where every item in it was as translucent as possible. Vote for your faves and recommend any we can add.
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If you look carefully at this much passed around tranparent TV, it is basically a back projection onto some semi translcent glass such as 'Privalite'. The speakers either side, are by Ferguson Hill.
Clear Blue Hawaii make the worlds only transparent Kayaks, in both folding and static versions. The folding version is particularly beautiful revealing its truss-like structure which is actually more reminiscent of retro engineering such as wood and paper biplanes.
National Electronics' Invention Station in Japan, produced this dryer, along with the transparent fridge, which is also in this list.
Designed by Mark Gajewski of G Squared, the Artemis ceiling fan won the Good Deisgn award of the Chicago Athenaeum. Its quiet as well as translucent. “Made mostly from recyclable materials.” No pun intended.
Sadly, this little beauty is not for sale. This skeleton model of a D80 was shown at Photokina 2006
The new Rinspeed concept car, “eXasis”, was first shown at teh Geneva motor show in 2007. Rinspeed’s owner M. Rinderknecht developed the car in collaboration with experts from Bayer MaterialScience AG – one of the largest plastics producers in the world – to mark Rinspeed’s 30th anniversary. The end result is a drivable “glass” car with a completely transparent body and floor made of Makrolon. It was built by Swiss engineering specialists Esoro.
Sadly discontinued, the hp 4670 was a great looking thing. Perhaps they can still be picked up on eBay.
This innovatiev Rubik cube was made by an instructables user. Instead of the 3 dimensional gimbaled joints, in the original, this version uses neodymium magnets.
Because this design was envisaged to be transparent, as produced, the design of the circuit boards themselves are imagined to be color matched to the solid parts of the body, in a sleek gray color. This gives the phone an overall look like a miniaturized surface of the Death Star.
This somewhat sought after transparent plastic watch from Buler was made in the 70’s and costs around $100 second hand.
We have featured lots of mechanical calculators before, however there is something very cute about this transparent plastic toy, which reveals how it works. It has the look of those transparent vault door mechanisms that banks sometimes use.
Clear Audio make an entire range of audiophile turntables, where the emphasis, as their name suggests, is on the sound being as clear as the translucent and transparent parts that are their hallmark. Shown here is their entry level product, called ‘Solution’.
This is a concept car deisgn from Mitsubishi in Europe, called the iconcept. The iconcept’s novel design includes translucent front seats to give the impression of space.
Scratch-resistant iVue clear panels allow you to see the inner workings of your iPod. They are available for the 5th Generation iPod w/ Video, the Nano 1st Generation, and the 4th Generation iPods.
The iVue will come with a tool-kit & Thinskin and will come with a lifetime replacement warranty.