33 points | by bobbiechen a day ago ago
5 comments
I think the sleep light on the white plastic iBook was the first product feature I truly loved. My greatest hope is that I should be so lucky as to invent a single thing as great over the course of my lifetime.
The sleeping light - because what all hardware requires is blindingly bright LEDs that are always on. Even when that hardware is asleep
The dot in the "i" in "Thinkpad" on my laptop's lid does this, copying the mac, I expect. It's red, mimicking the trackpoint.
That last ~gif~ mov really looks like a sleeping robot from a Pixar movie.
I think all my laptops' LEDs first blink wildly when I close them, then change to a slower rhythm, that's not an Apple feature.
This is a neat article.
I don’t think I ever thought much about that light but now after reading this article…it really was a pretty cool and useful detail.
The info about how the light’s rhythm was meant to be similar to human breathing is cool too.
I think the sleep light on the white plastic iBook was the first product feature I truly loved. My greatest hope is that I should be so lucky as to invent a single thing as great over the course of my lifetime.
The sleeping light - because what all hardware requires is blindingly bright LEDs that are always on. Even when that hardware is asleep
The dot in the "i" in "Thinkpad" on my laptop's lid does this, copying the mac, I expect. It's red, mimicking the trackpoint.
That last ~gif~ mov really looks like a sleeping robot from a Pixar movie.
I think all my laptops' LEDs first blink wildly when I close them, then change to a slower rhythm, that's not an Apple feature.
This is a neat article.
I don’t think I ever thought much about that light but now after reading this article…it really was a pretty cool and useful detail.
The info about how the light’s rhythm was meant to be similar to human breathing is cool too.