Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

cpu nerd jesus brings down apocalypse


from his silicon tower
Toto's Steve Porcaro and his Polyfusion Modular system - 'Damius'

otis jackson heads into the vortex


oj jr - for the science of it

Thursday, October 30, 2008

various syringes

playing battleship on drugs


Measuring response times of a guy zonked on morphine - the experimenter read certain words at the patient to see how fast they responded by pushing a button that turned on the lights.

the darrow photopolygraph drug chair


Measures a patient's mental and physical reaction to slang references to drugs. In this test a researcher in an adjoining room shows the addict words such as "dope" and "informer" and then measures their psyichal responses (facial reactions, pulse, blood pressure, breathing and galvanic skin response (a change in the skin's electrical conductivity due to stress) as well as verbal responses via the mic.

Tests often conducted on inmates under the influence of narcotics - both patients and doctors I presume.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008

the Z machine


Z machine at the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico - x-ray machine which has produced plasma hotter than the core of the sun

flying laser harness


Monday, December 24, 2007

fresh watch


1969 prototype Kilfitt spy-camera

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Monday, December 10, 2007