And of course there is the 'dark sucker'. You turn it on when you enter and it sucks out all the dark from the room, it it gets broken all the dark comes flooding back out again. Regards Dave Instone +44 (0)1235 824963 Please note my email address is now: Dave.instone@xxxxxxxxxxx OXFORD SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED 25 MILTON PARK ABINGDON OXFORDSHIRE OX14 4SH Registered in England no 2733820 Registered Address: As above A Subsidiary of PLX Technology, Inc olaney@xxxxxxxx wrote: > That's a variant of the darkbulb [1]. > > Orin > > References > [1] Definition of a Darkbulb, DeLucas, James R., Best of The Journal of > Irreproducable Results p 180 - 181, Workman Publishing, NY, NY 1983 > > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:31:18 -0600 <art_porter@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> My favorite was the flashdark. You turn it on in the daylight and it >> casts a beam of darkness. Kind of like some managers, college >> professors, and politicians, just to name three groups who >> frequently cast darkness on things that are otherwise fully >> illuminated. >> >> Art Porter >> Agilent Technologies >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Todd Westerhoff >> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:08 AM >> To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [SI-LIST] Not quite ready to let go of the WOM gag yet .... >> >> >> Two other favorites of mine, wondering if anyone knows of a link to >> them >> ... >> The Dark Emitting Diode (DeD) - I think this was a magazine article. >> The >> devices were produced by taking ordinary LEDs and subjecting them to >> 120VAC. >> They were reported to be useful as power-off indicators, and boasted >> a >> manufacturing yield of 100%. >> >> The Vacuum Tube Modem - also a magazine article (I think). Reported >> to >> achieve incredible speeds by taking advantage of nonlinear behavior >> intrinsicto the device. Also reported in the same article - a >> Russian >> tube-based microprocessor, based on a single tube. It was called >> the >> PentiumProtubeski, if my memory is correctly functioning in a >> write-read >> capacity. >> >> If you've got links to those articles, they'd be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Todd. >> -- Todd Westerhoff VP, Software Products SiSoft 6 Clock Tower Place, >> Suite >> 250 Maynard, MA 01754 (978) 461-0449 x24 twesterh@xxxxxxxxxx[1] >> www.sisoft.com[2] >> >> --- Links --- >> 1 mailto:twesterh@xxxxxxxxxx >> 2 http://www.sisoft.com >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> To unsubscribe from si-list: >> si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject >> field >> >> or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: >> t >> >> For help: >> si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field >> >> >> List technical documents are available at: >> http://www.si-list.net >> >> List archives are viewable at: >> //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >> or at our remote archives: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages >> Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: >> http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> To unsubscribe from si-list: >> si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject >> field >> >> or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list >> >> For help: >> si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field >> >> >> List technical documents are available at: >> http://www.si-list.net >> >> List archives are viewable at: >> //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >> or at our remote archives: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages >> Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: >> http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu >> >> >> >> >> > > ____________________________________________________________ > Don't work harder, work smarter. Get info on an Online Bachelors here. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTL9zbTZUe0YToFfSi9M5McyR9rOuAVAjp8087Cp0Ig9ZDkxJCAaeU/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu