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The Pink Bear and I love our Kindle!
We think that it is one of the most wonderful inventions we know!
We love getting our books wirelessly by Whispernet, delivered directly to our Kindle, so that we can begin reading immediately!
Right now we are reading Van Gogh: The Life by Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.
It is a nearly 1000 page book...another reason we love our Kindle, for how could a little pink bear like this hold a 1000 page book?
Second collaborative artwork with one of the biggest and baddest illa's about to hit the industry, my man Mr Wan.
A universal theme is chosen and we independently create artwork which best reflects (a key word or phrase within) that theme using our signature styles.
Eventually to be released (in a very limited quantity and) a very exclusive pack of double sided cards.
Each image will be constructed using various technical printing and handicraftwork processes to ensure maximum quality and longevity.
You can see Mr Wan's 'Invention' here
A model of an invention designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, on display at the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci, the inventions of a Genius" in Bruges, Belgium.
Fingerprints
The discovery that fingerprints are unique in each person and are left behind on everything we touch made by Jan Evangelista in 1823 was nothing short of miraculous. The even bigger breakthrough came when this discovery could be used by law enforcement to conduct...
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Steers in the middle, like a Moxy, but without hydraulics! The driver needs to get off and walk round the tight turns.
*I had a little fun with Photoshop - my face inside my imagined Television-Telephone. It's how I thought I could telephone my friends... some day in the future.
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As a kid, I loved "Lost in Space" and my parents took me to see futuristic films - "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and Woody Allen’s "Sleeper" (1973). Maybe that’s why I often fantasized a lot about the future. I’d wonder what music of the future would be like, Just a bunch of robotic, mono-tone electronic blips? By the year 2000, cars will fly, of course! But without lanes how will they not crash into each other? I had concerns. Will the air still be breathable? Will the earth be nothing but a burning heap of trash? Then I’d start to hyperventilate.
But mostly my thoughts were on what kind of cool appliances and cars we’d have. That’s one reason I loved Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, with the white, sleek orb-like swooshing vehicles, I could pretend I was already in the future. Yes, that’s what the future would look like. And I loved the Jetson's cartoon, too - with its robotic maids and computerized kitchens. I was sure the future would be just like that. Everything would be white and zooming at break-neck speeds.
What I really looked forward to was having my own Television-Telephone. Maybe because the only phones I’d every known were heavy, usually black (or maybe harvest gold or avocado) rotary phones that took forever to dial. I practically had to wipe sweat from my brow when having to dial a number with lots of 8s, 9s or 0s in it. So when I saw an article in the newspaper about the possible invention of a Television-Telephone, I got so excited I tacked the article to my bedroom door. The future was nearly here! And I would live to see it before I got wrinkles. With this amazing new technology I will be able to see anyone I phoned and they will see me. It’ll be great! I could eat breakfast with my cousin in Texas. I could show her the prize I pulled out of my cereal box (if I could talk my dad into letting me have sugary cereal, that is). Or I could show my friend Cindy my latest Archie comic book without even having to leave my house. Cool! But then I realized that I’d have to wash my face, brush my hair and get out of my pajamas before ever using the phone. So… maybe the Television-Telephone wouldn’t be so great.
Still, I daydreamed about the future. Maybe I’d be a stewardess who will fly around the world, looking foxy in hot pants. Yes, I foresaw myself about thirty years in the future still wearing 1974’s trends. In my head, I saw a clear vision: Me, at about thirty-years-old, wearing a yellow smiley face t-shirt (very tight fitting, as my future self would be very foxy and built) with purple hot pants and white, platform go-go boots. My future self will be one sexy mama – a combo of Teresa Graves' no-nonsense hipness (from “Get Christie Love”), Raquel Welch’s curvy allure and Mary Tyler Moore's spunky carefree-ness - so carefree she tossed her hat into the air. Yes, I would be one foxy, curvy, spunky, world-traveling future lady in hot pants!
So here I am in my future, without one pair of hot pants. And never did I predict the invention of the internet (even better than the Television-Telephone, because I can answer e-mail in my underwear – if I want). I also never predicted I would be able to buy movie tickets and reserve my seat online. Every time I do this, I feel so futuristic. I can’t help but think my kid-self would’ve loved this convenience. But then I didn’t even foresee - right around the corner – Pong, ATMs, answering machines or call-waiting. I just assumed I would be forever hearing the bop-bop-bop headache-causing busy drone of the telephone. And now that I can see who is calling me, I think about these poor kids of the present (or my past future) who will never know the joy of anonymous crank (or is it prank?) calling (a latchkey kid's version of video games). Who’d have thought it? Not me. I was too busy daydreaming about me in hot pants. Purple hot pants.
“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986)
Pills, patches and Nitrolingual spray are used for treating angina because they act as a vasodilator which allows more blood to flow and more oxygen to reach the heart so easing chest pain and potential damage to the heart.
It is made from nitroglycerin which is the explosive component of dynamite discovered in 1847 by Asconi Sobrero. He thought it was far too unstable and dangerous to use as an explosive because his own face was badly damaged when it exploded in the lab. It was Alfred Nobel who discovered how to stabilise it ... not before many researchers were killed trying to discover how.
I find it quite amazing that Dr William Murrel decided to experiment with it to produce vasodilators which have now been used to treat angina for about 130 years. Nobel was actually prescribed it for his heart condition in the 1880's.
I am using this small bottle of pump spray, which was invented in1997, to symbolise the massive progress which has been made in medicine in the last 100 or so years, often by people who somehow came up with an idea which others either didn't see (or ridiculed) in the beginning. This invention was thoroughly tested by hubby today!
Our Daily Challenge 3-9 January : Inventions
First invented in 1805 these have to be the most game-changing invention which remains almost unchanged today.
I have a wood fire in winter, and could therefore keep warm and cook even if the digital world temporarily fails, and the gas and electric don't work.
See Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match
One of hazel's inventions in the Craft Council Collection. 1990's. Inspired by net drying sheds at Hastings.
Disneyland Paris.
June 2014.
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♫♪♫ The Submarines - Modern Inventions
I dues siluetes a la deriva, desolades... vivint, aprofitant un temps que s'ha aturat només per elles, a Barcelona; 14 d'abril de 2008.
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Poema recitat de Miquel López Crespí - Aquests carrers mullats sota la pluja
Kajakin kannella tahtoo irtonainen mela lähteä pyörimään. Litteä os melan keskellä estää tämän. Melan voi myös kiinnittää kevyesti kajakin kannelle.
"Necessity, who is the mother of invention"
Plato, The Republic
And what is more of a necessity to a small boy than cookies!
Taken for the Lowepro UK Competition with the theme of Invention.
This useful device allows one to mix delicious drinks and improve one's fitness at the same time. It is featured on pages 24/25 of the Better Living Catalog by Philip Garner.
The book is available from Amazon for £5 plus postage.
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Genius inventions group today.
Stuck for an idea for your daily 365 shot? Try the hereios of the We're Here! group for inspiration.
Head of Invention sculpture outside the Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, London by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
Triple exposure, no post-processing
"This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension.
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory.
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax relieve the tension"
As time goes by, Herman Hupfeld, Casablanca
Sunset with a somewhat-of-a-huge-clock decorating one of Athens hills. First time I saw it after so many years here.