Brainwave Amplifier
This Brainwave Amplifier is installed at the Wallenberg Hall at Stanford University. If you stand under it and the machine is activated, your IQ will be enhanced a million fold, and you will achieve superconsciousness, and understand everything there is to understand, and know everything there is to know. You will comprehend the entire universe as a spectacular, single mathematical equation.
Unfortunately, the effect lasts only for a fraction of a second, after which it's gone, and you return back to your normal existence. You will be left with a feeling of having experienced something unbelievably wonderful, but not remembering what it was.
Unfortunately, there is also another side effect: every time you go through this, it drains about 20 IQ points off you, so repeated use can quickly make you very dumb.
I don't think photography or visitors were allowed in this place, but this made for a nice photo, so I took the picture and got out before anyone saw me and called campus security (hey, they might have seized my camera, you know!!!)
OK, OK, that was a yarn. It is actually an audio player/speaker with a sound reflector, so only the person who stands directly under it can hear the sound. Speakers like this are used at museums and exhibitions where a large number of items are on display, with self-playing commentaries.
Leica M9 + 50mm Noctilux, @ f/2
(L1000939)
Brainwave Amplifier
This Brainwave Amplifier is installed at the Wallenberg Hall at Stanford University. If you stand under it and the machine is activated, your IQ will be enhanced a million fold, and you will achieve superconsciousness, and understand everything there is to understand, and know everything there is to know. You will comprehend the entire universe as a spectacular, single mathematical equation.
Unfortunately, the effect lasts only for a fraction of a second, after which it's gone, and you return back to your normal existence. You will be left with a feeling of having experienced something unbelievably wonderful, but not remembering what it was.
Unfortunately, there is also another side effect: every time you go through this, it drains about 20 IQ points off you, so repeated use can quickly make you very dumb.
I don't think photography or visitors were allowed in this place, but this made for a nice photo, so I took the picture and got out before anyone saw me and called campus security (hey, they might have seized my camera, you know!!!)
OK, OK, that was a yarn. It is actually an audio player/speaker with a sound reflector, so only the person who stands directly under it can hear the sound. Speakers like this are used at museums and exhibitions where a large number of items are on display, with self-playing commentaries.
Leica M9 + 50mm Noctilux, @ f/2
(L1000939)