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2. Swing Lo Magellan - Wikipedia

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   Released: July 10, 2012. "About to Die". Released: November 6, 2012. "Offspring Are Blank". Released: February 25, 2013. "The Socialites". Released: May 13, 2013. Swing Lo Magellan is the sixth studio album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors, which was released on Domino Records on July 10, 2012 in the United States and July 9 ...

3. Sony Dream Machine - Wikipedia

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   In the mid 1960s, Sony introduced the first Dream Machine. The basic idea was to use a radio program to wake up users more pleasantly, as many people found the loud mechanical alarm made by traditional alarm clocks disturbing. The use of direct-read digital display as opposed to a traditional clock dial gave the design a modernistic feel, which ...

4. Transparency (projection) - Wikipedia

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   Transparency (projection) A transparency, also known variously as a viewfoil or foil (from the French word "feuille" or sheet), or viewgraph, is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically polyester (historically cellulose acetate ), onto which figures can be drawn. These are then placed on an overhead projector for display to an ...

5. Livens Projector - Wikipedia

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   The Livens Projector was created by Captain William Livens of the Royal Engineers. [8] Livens designed a number of novel weapons, including a large-calibre flame thrower, to engulf German trenches in burning oil, that was deployed at the Somme in 1916. (One of these weapons was partially excavated in 2010 for an episode of archaeological ...

6. Digital micromirror device - Wikipedia

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   Digital micromirror device. A DMD chip, used in most projectors and some TVs. The digital micromirror device, or DMD, is the microoptoelectromechanical system (MOEMS) that is the core of the trademarked Digital Light Processing (DLP) projection technology from Texas Instruments (TI). Texas Instrument's DMD was created by solid-state physicist ...

7. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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   A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction –type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation ...