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When your technology isn't just bleeding-edge, but laser-edged, disruption-fielded-with-motorized-teeth high-tech. [[Power Glows]], and now so does your tech. A common design scheme used for this glow is a series of lines along the edges or between panels of the machine. Others will have flat surfaces crossed by circuit-like lines that glow when activated, or have occasional pulses of light race down their length in tandem. Others have glowing components such as engines, weapon barrels, forcefield projectors and the like.

** Though those are more [[wikipedia:Blinkenlights|Blinkenlights]], actually.

** The Connection Machine is one of the most beautiful computers ever made, but pretty much every supercomputer made after the '70s looks pretty awesome. After all, if a machine's going to cost over a million dollars, why not throw a few thousand into the case?

* [[Truth in Television]]: Try looking at your feet next time you ride an escalator. They are actually there to warn you not to put your feet there as you may fall, but still pretty cool.

* The [[wikipedia:Corpus Clock|Corpus Clock,]] which ironically uses no computers whatsoever. (Everything is controlled by [[Steampunk|bleeding edge clockwork]], including the [[Nightmare Fuel|evil blinking grasshopper]] on top.)