I wish I could change the displayed photo, because the Isolator - and it certainly deserves a capital I - looks like something from a mad scientist's dungeon. No-one in their right mind would disturb anyone wearing this.
Back in 1925, inventor and science fiction author Hugo Gernsback had an idea to block out annoying ambient noise: a contraption he called ‘the isolator’. This helmet would shut out all sounds, smells, and sights of the outside world. The idea was that the user, looking through two small window holes in the metal hood, could concentrate only on the task right at hand.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170518-curious-contraptions-of-yesterdays-workplaces
Now that I've followed the link I realise I've seen The Isolator before. I love that thing.
ReplyDeleteHi Rhys Taylor off-topic I know but have you seen this ? :
ReplyDeletearxiv.org - [1705.06286] Going, going, gone dark: Quantifying the scatter in the faintest dwarf
galaxies
Dark galaxies !
Adam Synergy Thanks, I hadn't see that - added to the reading list. :)
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