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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 (AT) agilent (DOT) com> 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
>
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> 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 (AT) sisoft (DOT) com[1]
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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.

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olaney (AT) juno (DOT) com 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 (AT) agilent (DOT) com> 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 (AT) freelists (DOT) org
>> [mailto:si-list-bounce (AT) freelists (DOT) org] On Behalf Of Todd Westerhoff
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:08 AM
>> To: si-list (AT) freelists (DOT) org
>> 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 (AT) sisoft (DOT) com[1]
>> www.sisoft.com[2]
>>
>> --- Links ---
>> 1 mailto:twesterh (AT) sisoft (DOT) com
>> 2 http://www.sisoft.com
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