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Woodcut printer's device of Govaert Bac of Antwerp. Cf. Bac's entry in M. Harman, Printer's and Publisher's Devices in Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library (Urbana, Ill., 1983):
The "bird cage" in this device is Bac's housemark, his address being "int vogelhuys." It is the device of his predecessor at this shop, Matthias van der Goes. Bac changed the initial, M, of Van der Goes, to his own initials, g b, and added his own mark, the good-luck symbol, 4, double-crossed and surmounted by a swastika. The shield bears the arms of the city of Antwerp, the two severed hands issuing from the central tower allegedly being derived from the practice of punishing pirates by cutting off their hands and throwing them into the Schelle. This is the third of several versions of this device, which was first used in 1496.
Established form: Bac, Govaert
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 Si116 505p
For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
Image d'un circuit intégré contenant le BIOS (Basic Input Output System) d'un ordinateur. Cette image a été réalisée à partir de 33 photos (focus stacking).
Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The sorghum press and outdoor furnace at the Cable Mill were used to turn sorghum (sugarcane) into syrup. Primitive as they might look, they were yet another set of essential devices that the people at Cades Cove needed for their farming life.
This is the Guidant defibrillator that was implanted in May of 2003 after I survived an episode of cardiac arrest, Whew! It replaced my old pacemaker, and is a pacemaker/defibrillator, better known as an AICD, Automatic Implantable Cardiac Device. This device was removed and replaced with a new one on March 21st, 2007, the 1st day of spring. That device was replaced on January 4th, 2012.
This is for a photochallenge. The idea is a self portrait that tells something about myself. For the non-nerds, those are network cables.
For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
Starring Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon, Robert Strauss, Edgar Stehli, Patty Duke, Guy Raymond, and Chic James. Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr..
James Congdon plays While a bit obscure, 4D Man (4D for short) is more of a low A-grade movie than a B-movie. For one thing, it's shot in color. It has some A-grade actors, and some cleanly done optical special effects. As in many sci-fi films, the technology isn't the star, but a plot device to propel a larger human drama. In this case, it gives the main character a special power. How he handles (or mishandles) that power is the meat of the tale.
Synopsis
Tony Nelson is talented scientist who is obsessed with his research, to the point of having a hard time keeping a job. He is trying repeat an earlier fluke success at getting one material to pass through another. (a pencil through steel) He travels to see his brother, Scott Nelson (Robert Lansing). Scott heads up a research lab trying to make a metal stronger than steel -- Cargonite. Scott convinces Tony to accept a job at his lab, but this only complicates the social scene. Scott was about to propose to co-worker-scientist Linda. Instead, Linda falls in love with Tony. Frustrated at all this, Scott goes to the lab late one night and gets into Tony's secret apparatus. He manages to get it to work. His hand passes through the steel. Meanwhile, another lab scientist, Roy, has stolen Tony's notes and is trying to sell the facility's director on the idea, so he can be a chief scientist himself. When Scott and Tony re-try the experiment in the lab, it works, even though the equipment wasn't working. Scott has "the power" all by himself. He tells Tony that he doesn't want anyone to know just yet. A newspaper headline tells of a bank robbery. The next morning, Scott sees that he's aged noticeably. Passing through matter ages him. He rushes to a friend's apartment for help, but when he touches the friend on the shoulder, the friend drops dead, his body aging to a gray shriveled corpse. Scott, however, was young again. His special power also saps life from others. He hides the amplifier so no one else can share his power. Things quickly unravel. Scott confronts his credit-stealing boss and saps him. Scott tries to find solace in a bar, with a floosie, but kills her with a kiss. The police know there's a killer on the loose. Tony tells the police all about it. The police cannot stop Scott, however. He shifts through walls, touches (and kills) policemen, and even a hail of bullets cannot stop him. He just shifts himself and the bullets pass through him. Scott finds out that Tony is trying to build another amplifier, so returns to the lab. Tony, Linda and the police try to kill Scott by turning on the reactor while he's inside it. (this is where Scott hid the amplifier) This fails because he is invincible when shifted. Everyone but Linda flees. Scott tries to talk her into running away with him. While in an embrace, she shoots him with the gun the detective left behind. Unshifted Scott is mortally wounded, but defiantly shouts his invincibility. To prove it, he throws himself into the Carbonite reactor, slowly disappearing into it's walls. The End (?)
The premise and human-interest angle are interesting and well done. The A-level actors do a good job making their characters believable. Robert Lansing does an excellent job with Dr. Scott Nelson -- both his frustrated awkward "before" self and the tormented-yet-maniacal "after" self. Given how many later movies (or TV shows) would take up the idea of people being able to pass through walls, etc., it's fun to see an early version.
This movie isn't an allegory of the Cold War. There is an oblique connection to the dangers-of-science sub-genre. A background element of the Cold War years, is the research lab working on improved materials for the military. Nelson's work isn't with any nuclear weaponry, but how it goes dreadfully is still an understated cautionary tale about how even innocent research can create a killer.
The quasi-science behind the premise, is that Scott can (at will) shift the "time" of his body relative to objects, permitting him to pass through them. The more he does this, the faster it ages him. While fanciful, this has a plausibility. The portrayal of "time" as a life force which he can then absorb from others has no plausibility, but it makes for a good plot device.
An interesting plot device is how Scott Nelson must drain the life from people in order reverse his own rapid aging. He does this by simply "touching" (merging) with them. The trope of the living sacrificed to prolong another's life, is not unique. It got (and gets) used in low-B movies like She Demons ('58) in which a mad scientist extracts hormones from young women (turning them into ugly demons) in order to keep his sick wife alive. In 4D, however, the "monster" drains life from them by a mere touch. This is a fascinating preview of the Wraith in the Stargate TV series (2005) -- race of beings who must "feed" on living humans in order to survive. The idea still has legs.
Another plot aspect which is not unique to 4D is how the man who acquires some amazing power can't handle it. For the sci-fi world, this appeared in H.G. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man." His special feature tempted him into tyranny. Once a man feels immune to the hand of justice, he commits crimes with impunity. Scott Nelson is no different in 4D. We see his morality drop away and his total human selfishness take control. He gets professional revenge on his credit-stealing boss. He robs a bank and tries to induce LInda to run away with him. At the end, he shouts, "I'm invincible! Nothing can hurt me!" with a well acted mixture of defiance, denial (he'd just been shot) and pleading. An interesting little human psych study of how man might behave if he no longer fears punishment.
An intriguing little twist amid the plot was how Scott's power was not totally under his control. By force of will, he could "turn on" his time-shift to pass through walls, but when he stopped willing it, objects were solid to him. At one point, he's trying to grab the door knob to a bar, but keeps passing his hand through it. At that moment, he wanted to be "normal" but his power was not so completely under his control. A little while later, when he wanted some companionship and kissed the B-girl, she screams in pain and turns into an old woman, then dies. Scott was becoming a sort of King Midas who ruins everything he touches. This adds a degree of pity to the character. With the "cool" power, he could never be normal again.
4D's producer, Jack Harris, and director, Irvin Yeaworth brought us The Blob in late 1958. 4D has some family resemblance. Color, big-name stars, and brassy jazz score. 4D and The Blob may have been shot together in '57. Young Patty Duke plays a bit part of a landlady's daughter, but she looks maybe ten years old -- noticeably younger than she was in 1959. Universal may have intended to release The Blob and 4D Man together, but opted to spread out the releases for better revenue.
The score in 4D is heavy-handed brass jazz band fodder. Such jazz was pretty typical stuff of 50s movies which held the Rat Pack and Las Vegas show scene as the pinnacle of cool. The score of 4D seems like a cross between a 007-wanabe movie and the Pink Panther -- but without any of Mancini's style. Given the rather dark story line, the loudly perky jazz seems out of place. Instead of enhancing the story, it intrudes, like someone talking loudly in the theater while you try to watch the flick. Unless the viewer is a fan of such brassy nightclub jazz, it's more likely to be annoying than admired.
Bottom line? 4D is worth the time. It's a modern Midas tale reasonably well done. The science is weak or a tough stretch, but the story can be enjoyed anyway.
For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
A soldier operates a Dragon Runner Bomb Disposal Robot at a Counter IED (CIED) facility demonstration at RAF Wittering.
As part of the C-IED Task Force, members of 5131 (BD) Squadron demonstrated their skills in dealing with IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices), the likes of which they expect to see in future deployments to Afghanistan. One of the many tools that they will use is the Dragon Runner Bomb Disposal Robot.
Photographer:Andy Cargill ABIPP
I was invited to spend two days at Europe’s most comprehensive IoT Event. This leading forum focused on case studies that show today’s Industry and Enterprises leveraging IoT technologies to transform their business through creating value and efficiencies.
The Internet of things (stylised Internet of Things or IoT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
"Things," in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters,[16] automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations.[18] Legal scholars suggest to look at "Things" as an "inextricable mixture of hardware, software, data and service". These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include home automation (also known as smart home devices) such as the control and automation of lighting, heating (like smart thermostat), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and appliances such as washer/dryers, robotic vacuums, air purifiers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
The military comes up with the most high tech of devices that we civilians dont see on a daily basis.... here is one of them.
hope you all like it!!!
I believe this was the thing used for lowering a baker into the river to nearly drown him for baking loaves that were too small. For shame.
Woodcut printer's device of Johann Setzer of Haguenau.
Established heading: Setzer, Johann, -1532
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 M4804 523a 1526
IMHM has an extensive collection of medical artifacts in storage. Due to space constraints, you won't be able to see these artifacts if you visit the museum, but we wanted to share a behind-the scenes look at some of our more interesting items.
I picked up my pandigital novel 7 at Radio Shack on sale. My theory is that I could get a lot of uses from my computer similar to a tablet computer at an inexpensive "e-reader" price. The theory has thus far proven valid. I've been able to install a youtube application (though the instructions with the device suggested I could not), to install an app for my mog.com subscription music account, to install TuneinRadio which streams lots of internet radio, and to add Kindle and Kobo e-reader apps to the in-built Barnes & Noble Nook app. In addition to the SlideMe marketplace, I've been able to download apps from the Amazon marketplace. This little device has been a lot of fun, and very useful.
His Royal Highness Prince Charles tries out a counter IED (improvised explosive device) detector at Camp Bastion, Helmand.
On Friday 26th March 2010 HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, visited troops at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan where he spoke with soldiers of the Joint Helicopter Force (Afghanistan), the UK Joint Force Medical Group, and the Joint Force EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) teams.
The Prince also laid a wreath at the Camp Bastion memorial, in memory of British soldiers killed during the campaign.
FDA scientists test devices that claim to use UV light to clean Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines. To date, UV light has not been proven to be safe or effective for this use. While cleaning your CPAP is important, most CPAPs can be cleaned safely and effectively with mild soap and water as described in the owner’s manual, with some manufacturers recommending the use of diluted vinegar.
Scientists from left to right: Ilko K. Ilev, Ph.D., Senior Research Physicist, and Nandini Duraiswamy, Ph.D., General Engineer
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FDA photo by Michael J. Ermarth
Connected devices in the modern cloud. Data is shared everywhere.
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Setup near the cheese museum. It is part of the medieval fair that occured the weekend before I arrived.
A Re-Pe-To prescription book from the 1930s. The idea is that each incoming prescription is pasted onto a blank page of the book, simultaneously removing it from circulation and keeping a hard copy record of the transaction. It doesn't get much more modern than that.
Now to see what kind of drugs people's great grandparents used...
The Web Everywhere: Multi-Device Web Design
Luke Wroblewski, CEO & Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc.
The web no longer starts and ends on our desktop and laptop computers. Today, the tremendous growth of mobile devices is turning more and more people into multi-device and, as a result, cross-device users. Designing for this reality requires new ways of thinking and building for the web.
Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
Soldiers on patrol come to a halt after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is found up ahead.
Troops of 2nd Battalion The Rifles (2 Rifles) mounted a 20 hour operation to clear a safe route to Patrol Base (PB) Wishton in Sangin, Afghanistan.
One of the main roads that leads to the PB is well known for having a large number of IEDs. With the aid of the Royal Engineers, 2 Rifles cleared the way and made a new route to the PB that can now be monitored 24 hours a day. This now allows vital supplies to get to the Patrol Base unhindered, whilst it is upgraded to a Forward Operating Base.
Photographer: Cpl Russ Nolan RLC