I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

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    3 months ago

    Oh what kind of car? I’d love for this style to come back for a bit.

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      3 months ago

      Suzuki Aerio SX. I can’t find a picture that shows the whole dash, but here’s part of it: