Here’s how it works. Like many in my millennial age cohort, I've got a sickening nostalgic obsession with clear plastic electronics: Game Boys, OG MacBooks, Discmen. It's god's own design ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, clear plastic products such as televisions ... The idea of see-through electronics quickly broke free from its prison-tech roots and entered the consumer electronics ...

These compact, push-button phones had translucent plastic cases so callers ... decoration than a multifunctional electronic gadget. Like most trends, clear phones lost their novelty over time.