Eyeclops camera's fake auxillary circuit board
Chris sez, "I saw your post about the close-up photos done with the Eyeclops camera. Last week, a friend and I dissected an Eyeclops for an art project he's working on, and found something really funny: look closely at the photo and see if you can figure it out!
The Eyeclops contains two circuit boards: one is the real, functional board while the other is a sticker with an image of some circuitry printed on it. Apparently this is an attempt to compensate for the now-puny electronics that go into kids' toys. Makes me nostalgic for the days of my old vacuum-tube Atari that took up the entire family room." Link
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I think all fashionable electronics gear should come with fake vacuum tubes, with the warm glow provided by small hidden LEDs.
Electronic parts have been replaced by a picture of electronic parts?
Could be a Hieronymus Machine.
Stefan,
Too late:
http://www.korg.com/gear/prod_info.asp?A_PROD_NO=ESX1
It looks like the Autobot named Cosmos.
http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/01/r_cosmos005.jpg
I give them credit for assuming that some kid is going to open up the thing to look at the guts, or is the fake circuit board visible from the outside without dismantling?
The fake circuit board is almost visible without opening it, but not quite. There is a white translucent focus dome, which is screwed in and out to set different focal lengths.
Naturally, when something screws, eventually, the user is going to screw it all the way out until it comes apart. That is when the second circuit board printout is visible, but I never wouldn't have noticed if someone hadn't pointed it out.
So I don't get it. Is this so the consumer feels like they're getting a more sophisticated product? But the average consumer won't see it anyway. And wouldn't the company making the Eyeclops rather cut costs and not buy fake circuit board stickers? I can't wrap my head around the "why" of these stickers.
@ernie
That korg product uses real tubes, like a lot of pro audio equipment. Fake ones can't be far behind though. They've spent enough time duplicating the tube sound with various modeling technologies, now they can go for the look.