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How do BOSE make these Awesome LEDs?!
[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Roboto]Hi, I work as a product designer an am trying copy a detail that Bose have on their head phones. Essentially they have what looks like flat black ABS plastic back light with some LEDS. Next to the LED is a printed symbol (Pad printing I think).[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Roboto]How do they create this clever effect with the LEDs?[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Roboto]At first I thought the plastic might have been translucent and that the black coating had been printed on the the outside. However, as you can probably see in the image, I tried scratching away on the top black surface to find that it looks like this whole chunk of material is black ABS.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Roboto]So how do they get the light through?[/FONT][/COLOR]
[LIST][*]Is the wall thickness where the LEDs are super thin? But I tried poking the left one and it seems pretty tough.[*]Is there a hole all the way through the black ABS where the LEDs are and they insert some very tight fitting light guides/pipes?[/LIST]
[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Roboto]Any thoughts/comments would be really appreciated. Thanks.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Roboto]Greg[/FONT][/COLOR]