Not that there aren't plenty of eyesores among them, but there are loads of computer cases with huge tempered glass windows (and I've even seen a decent number

Not that there aren't plenty of eyesores among them, but there are loads of computer cases with huge tempered glass windows (and I've even seen a decent number of them made of clear acrylic panels). I guess that's more transparency than translucency, but it's easy to put together a workstation with visible internals. You don't even have to load it up with rainbow LEDs if you don't want it looking like some hot rodder's ground effects ;)