Consumer tech products are often imbued with a pristine, ornamental quality in our current design-crazed age. In spite of that, most gadgets aren't exactly things that you could imagine hanging up on your wall to impress new guests.

You could use an X-Ray to look inside someone's guts. Or, you could use it to look inside a next-gen controller—because why not?

I've never actually wondered what a console controller looks like on the inside. Perhaps I am too easily distracted by their colorful plastic exteriors, or by wanting to throw them across the room in response to certain games.

This week the sun shot off a massive class X solar flare. Its effects on radio broadcasts, electronics, and power are still being felt today, and this is only the beginning.