"What's really caught my eye, though, is how more of the high-tech gear that used to glow red or yellowish green is now luminescing cerulean. The latest Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Pavilion laptop flickers blue as it accesses its hard drive. The keys of a Samsung SPH-A460 cell phone cast an azure glow. Sony's (SNE) Playstation 2 has a blue-lit eject button. This outbreak of cyanophilia among high-tech manufacturers makes perfect sense to Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute: Blue really pops next to the black and silver materials they like to use." linkie Disregard that it's linked to a CNN article, it's still interesting. [Edit for snippet - GOO ]