Toy Ray Guns

Classic Raygun 

The 1950’s were a golden age of science fiction. Books, movies and most of all TV brought strange alien worlds, space ships and evil aliens to people everywhere. And what’s better to deal with an evil alien monster than a trusty ray gun? Over at the Patent Room, The Art of Industrial Design they have collected a bunch of patent drawings (yep, they were patented before being mass produced) of classic ray guns and a bunch of other thing (architecture, trains, cars just to name a few). As an added bonus you can buy prints of up to 24"x36" or each patent drawing.

PatentRoom.com: Early Design and Illustration | Toy ray guns

Perfect Pinhole Camera System

Perfect Pinhole Camera

I wish I could find more information on this item. All I know is that it’s a pinhole camera system that includes variable focal lengths (wide, normal, telephoto) by using different length bodies, multiple slide in pinholes (0.2/0.25/0.3/0.35/0.4 mm) to give it different F stops, comes with different shutters (bulb and a timed one that looks like it’s a gravity shutter), and that it takes 120 film.
The site the mini review is on is kind of odd, it’s one of those little niche Japanese bars that has a certain twist on their business. Its called "Camera & Bar Antiquary". Cameras and booze, sounds like a cool place to hang out at. Good drink and walls of high quality photos. Stop by and have a drink and talk about your hobby with fellow patrons. I need to find one of those here.. or open my own. Hum…

Perfect Pinhole Camera System

Intel’s Great ‘Leap’ Forward

 

No more ‘Intel inside’, now it’s ‘Leap ahead’. New logo (I like mine better), new slogan, same old chips.

The image above is just my own take on they ‘leap ahead’ slogan, it sounds a lot like the ‘Great Leap Forward‘ that was the campaign of the Chinese revolution back in the late ’50’s.  As long as Intel doesn’t announce any ‘Glorious five year plans’ I think it’s going to be ok.

Intel Unveils New Brand Identity