It’s like something dreamt up by a record company:
“How can we sell more records?”
Shitty engineer: “Let’s make a portable record player that even works upside down. This will require a massive spring on the tone arm, which will wear down both needles and records at a… record pace!”
Guessing here, but looks to me like the white thing holds the recordbanana in place. Otherwise, the recordbanana might fall off in some positionsbanana.
Ah, I see what you mean. Seems to me those are enough to make the image suspect, so I’ll edit the post in a few minutes here and replace that image.
Thanks! Btw I got to be a frequent poster a few weeks ago but I have no other association with the group, so I don’t know if there is any kind of post checking other than just having people notice things like you did here.
happy to hear it. I believe you on the existence of these cages, but the middle image is suspect. the hands don’t look right, and the way the cage hangs on the o-ring at the top, with each strap joining at a random position, doesn’t make sense to me
as far as evidence goes, I can do a reverse image search if you’d like but I suspect I won’t find anything you haven’t already seen
I removed one entire post I made a few weeks ago, which was from an AI source, which I didn’t know at the time I posted it.
In this case the existence of these cages is very well attested, inc with the wikipedia info above, and many articles in reputable publications. If you have evidence one of the photos is AI, I’ll edit the post to remove that and replace it with another, since there are endless photos of these things from the era.
patients would be placed in the iron lung-like machine and then baked at temperatures typically around 138°C (280°F) but sometimes as high as 204°C (400°F). The sensation was variously described as either quite pleasant or feeling like one was being roasted alive.
People who need a little ice in their hot coffee vs the freaks that ask for it extra hot and sip it immediately
In the OP newspaper ad, it looks like they are mounted like AC units. In the second pic, it looks like they are just hanging there, wtf lol no. Like crab pots or something.
The oven was claimed to help with gastrointestinal issues such as constipation and irritable bowel syndrome… dermal issues such as skin disease, open sores, and ulcers… heart issues such as heart arrhythmia and heart failure… kidney issues, bladder issues, irregular blood pressure, malnutrition, diabetes, obesity, flat feet, hay fever, Bright’s disease, edema, tonsillitis, gangrene, pre-eclampsia… lung related issues such as asthma and tuberculosis…
Treats obesity and hay fever. Heart failure and flat feet.
Interestingly, cryotherapy exists too you know. Even the extreme variant corresponding to this one exists. You just put people into a -100 °C freezer for a while.
The Space WarS arcade game I played occasionally in the arcade in the early 80s. It was a good game. Two player only, so you had to recruit someone to play with you.
It did survive in a way: Huffy apparently owns the rights to it now and makes a modernized version with a hand brake. It looks like this.
By the comments further in the thread, everybody is going, “Had one, suffered lots of injuries, totally worth it though!” So probably a safe bet that many injuries were sustained from these. On the plus side, it doesn’t look very easy to flip when you skid it out.
Interesting. From your link, it seems our modern usage of cypher stemmed from this!
The word came to Europe with Arabic numerals. From “zero,” it came to mean “any numeral” (early 15c.), then (first in French and Italian) “secret way of writing; coded message” (a sense first attested in English 1520s), because early codes often substituted numbers for letters.
About zeros, my guess would be that the ad doesn’t mean zero in the literal sense, but in the sense of how many places to shift intermediate products by during a multiplication. You’d add zeros to the right of each term, to get the power of 10 right for the intermediate products. Normally doing a hand multiplication you just don’t write those down, merely imply it with alignment. But in principle, the zeros are there, and you have to get the count of them right.
But that’s just guessing. I have never used a machine like that before!
Jackass I think. It was on MTV 20 years ago, a show about idiots doing dumb things (not being judgmental; I think the people in the show would describe it that way too). I never watched it but I remember some quotes.
I seem to remember that people with arthritis and other kinds of chronic pain are going into old mines where radon accumulates and “hang out” for pain treatment. Doctors recommendations. But hey, homeopathy and all that. So that doesn’t carry any value sadly.
Let’s hope there is some real science behind that idea.
Yeah. Before I made the post I’d actually attempted to look a few up on Wikipedia, but came up empty handed. I didn’t try very hard though! There might be better places around the web for old timey Seattle musicians.
Oh, I see. I wonder if that could’ve been blocked by some filters? When I made the OP I ran across a photo of Eben Byers after his jaw issue, and it was rather… gruesome. I decided against putting it in the post, even with a NSFW marker, but I’m not sure what would have happened if I tried.
For sure, the damage over time is an interesting subject. Like lead has a direct exposure effect (IQ loss) but I’m not sure if that passes down to subsequent generations. Maybe though… in epigenetics, there are multi generation effects. Even it doesn’t, there might still be indirect impacts. Like your society makes worse choices for itself on average, and the effects of those choices go on to cause multi generational damage in other ways.
It must’ve been studied a lot by now, but I don’t know much about it.
I think we’re paying for lead to this day! It causes intellectual impairment and all kinds of other lasting nastiness. At least we’ve taken big steps to remove it from our lived environment, so the effects are less today than in the 70s, and it should continue to get better in the future.
We still have a TON of pseudoscience “medicine” around today of course. Homeopathy, using magnets to “cure” things magnets cannot possible cure, “crystal healing”, techno-babble quackery like “quantum healing”, etc. But most of it at least is on the “useless but harmless” end of the scale, not the “makes your jaw fall off” end! Although, if it stops people from getting legit health care and treating their cancer with sham cures rather than evidence based medicine, that is a type of harm too.
I tried and tried to get my kid to ride bikes without training wheels and he refused, always preferred his scooter. Then his friends got annoyed that he couldn’t keep up and BOOM. He knows.
Edit: I worded that poorly. His friends taught him in like 2 days to ride without at age 10, when I’d been trying for like 5 years.
Because that shit was cool as hell. I had one as a kid (not the original, but a 2000s variant). Unwieldy as hell but man was it fun as a kid to make turns that sharp while sitting that low to the ground.
RetroFed
I mean, once you’re cooked, none of these is still an issue
Squirrel!
It’s smaller þan shown in þe ad: 25x8x11”. It looks 4’ long in þe ad, unless þe girl is, like, 7y/o.
The song was about vibrators. This is a rather large one.
Yes.
It’s a banana, what could it cost, $10?
quite right-ly
You could almost say… they went bananas. But it took a bunch of them to come up with that idea.
Should’a called it Banana Split
This is as portable as vinyl record players have ever gotten. You can buy this today for $200
Here’s a TechMoan video about it: https://youtu.be/b48XD9P8klM
It’s like something dreamt up by a record company:
“How can we sell more records?”
Shitty engineer: “Let’s make a portable record player that even works upside down. This will require a massive spring on the tone arm, which will wear down both needles and records at a… record pace!”
“portable”
Remember the first “portable” computers? We called them “luggable”.
Is the model in the ad wearing a monkey mask?
Makes me sad that I won’t be able to experience cool old tech like this without being loaded with cash.
The more I think about this the more I can see the a-peel of it.
Electrical banana is fun on the go Electro-Banana sounds better though
Electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze. Electrical banana is bound to be the very next phase.
Ha! Now I’m curious. It overflowed my calculator app, but if my web query is right, that’s around 4 x 10^2567.
Banana for scale
That’s a lot of money, even without the factorial.
Bet it took like 8 D batteries when not plugged in.
!turntables@lemmy.world
Oh wow. One apparently sold on ebay for $1500!
I appreciate it! for what it’s worth, I’ve become infatuated with this community recently, so thank you for posting
From an edmonton newspaper
Done.
Ah, I see what you mean. Seems to me those are enough to make the image suspect, so I’ll edit the post in a few minutes here and replace that image.
Thanks! Btw I got to be a frequent poster a few weeks ago but I have no other association with the group, so I don’t know if there is any kind of post checking other than just having people notice things like you did here.
happy to hear it. I believe you on the existence of these cages, but the middle image is suspect. the hands don’t look right, and the way the cage hangs on the o-ring at the top, with each strap joining at a random position, doesn’t make sense to me
as far as evidence goes, I can do a reverse image search if you’d like but I suspect I won’t find anything you haven’t already seen
I removed one entire post I made a few weeks ago, which was from an AI source, which I didn’t know at the time I posted it.
In this case the existence of these cages is very well attested, inc with the wikipedia info above, and many articles in reputable publications. If you have evidence one of the photos is AI, I’ll edit the post to remove that and replace it with another, since there are endless photos of these things from the era.
if only the leeches could take the heat, they’d have covered all the bases.
is this a community that doesn’t regulate ai generated photos?
Thanks for distracting me for 10 minutes hahaha
People who need a little ice in their hot coffee vs the freaks that ask for it extra hot and sip it immediately
I always look for þe subliminal naked women hidden in þese old ads.
https://thehustle.co/5-subliminal-sex-messages-hidden-in-ads
Wheþer or not þat specific example was ever actually used, I still hope to catch one someday.
Yeah and getting the kid in and out seems dangerous.
I noticed that too. I wonder if there were multiple brands or types?
Free hanging, I’d figure wind would be a problem, and mom or nanny would have to monitor that carefully.
theres an olimpiade symbol,, why?
It seems a little odd, but there’s this version which is more of an enclosed balcony.
https://youtu.be/aUS1V3HUo_0
In the OP newspaper ad, it looks like they are mounted like AC units. In the second pic, it looks like they are just hanging there, wtf lol no. Like crab pots or something.
Treats obesity and hay fever. Heart failure and flat feet.
Sounds legit.
Ah, I love those days when medicine was extreme.
“Realistic Sounds of Ball”
“Gee, Ma, something sure smells delicious!”
“Oh, Timmy. That’s just your father!”
Can’t have rheumatism, if you’re dead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interestingly, cryotherapy exists too you know. Even the extreme variant corresponding to this one exists. You just put people into a -100 °C freezer for a while.
Sauna on crack… :O
Oh look, the machine specifically designed to roast people alive makes people feel like they're being roasted alive, 10/10 no notes
That was great! What a cool cabinet.
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click* *click* *click* *click*
Thanks, suddenly it’s showing up in Thunder now.
Jeez. I remember this being the free first game on my Atari vc2600. And it was the tits. How could we have had fun with 8 pixels 😁
Shows up for me but it might depend on your app, maybe? It’s an animated gif so maybe some won’t display it inline.
Here’s a direct link to the gif, if that helps any
Gameplay link is broken for me :/
“Not as clumsy or random as a phone. An elegant computing device for a more civilized time.” - Obi Wan Kenobi
The Space WarS arcade game I played occasionally in the arcade in the early 80s. It was a good game. Two player only, so you had to recruit someone to play with you.
https://youtu.be/_HhxKSOrU6Y
A video with plenty of information, including gameplay, and a peek inside:
https://youtu.be/Ta5xws11KSY
Nutting Associates decorating their adverts with some random woman in a see-through nighty seems a bit on the nose.
RPN baby!
RPN.
Sometimes I think about a parallel alternate history where the portable computing device grew out of the calculator not the phone.
And how much does the phone they did it on cost? More than $500 I bet
Back when HP was known for outstanding calculators and not for shitty printers.
Let me have fun
did you use a calculator for that
Adjusted for inflation, this device cost five hundred dollars.
It did survive in a way: Huffy apparently owns the rights to it now and makes a modernized version with a hand brake. It looks like this.
By the comments further in the thread, everybody is going, “Had one, suffered lots of injuries, totally worth it though!” So probably a safe bet that many injuries were sustained from these. On the plus side, it doesn’t look very easy to flip when you skid it out.
Clearly not that obvious, as no one seems to know what you’re referencing.
Those look like a blast! Also I could prolly kill myself on one of those but it would be fun!
Even in 1972, the idea of “you won’t carry a calculator with you everywhere” was bullshit.
Gotcha thanks! I never watched it either. I think I’ve seen clips?
Interesting. From your link, it seems our modern usage of cypher stemmed from this!
About zeros, my guess would be that the ad doesn’t mean zero in the literal sense, but in the sense of how many places to shift intermediate products by during a multiplication. You’d add zeros to the right of each term, to get the power of 10 right for the intermediate products. Normally doing a hand multiplication you just don’t write those down, merely imply it with alignment. But in principle, the zeros are there, and you have to get the count of them right.
But that’s just guessing. I have never used a machine like that before!
I had to look up the term ‘ciphers’ in the context of this ad, since its usual usage is in cryptography. It turns out this is an old term for the 0 digit in Arabic numerals per https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/confused-about-ciphers-in-the-book-arithmetic-for-the-practical-man.1078238/
A version of them actually had a resurgence lately:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_trike
You can also find fun looking videos on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9aHWDpJxU
A version of them actually had a resurgence lately:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_trike
You can also find fun looking videos on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9aHWDpJxU
Did this toy injure a bunch of kids or something? It didn’t survive the natural selection process of toy brands.
I really, really wanted one of these. But it wasn’t to be.
Jackass I think. It was on MTV 20 years ago, a show about idiots doing dumb things (not being judgmental; I think the people in the show would describe it that way too). I never watched it but I remember some quotes.
I seem to remember that people with arthritis and other kinds of chronic pain are going into old mines where radon accumulates and “hang out” for pain treatment. Doctors recommendations. But hey, homeopathy and all that. So that doesn’t carry any value sadly.
Let’s hope there is some real science behind that idea.
Thanks for trying and for the post too.
Yeah. Before I made the post I’d actually attempted to look a few up on Wikipedia, but came up empty handed. I didn’t try very hard though! There might be better places around the web for old timey Seattle musicians.
Would be interesting to find out what happened to each of those “prominent musicians” in the OP thumbnail.
No, it think it may be the instance or my app because I was trying to upload and not embed them.
Oh, I see. I wonder if that could’ve been blocked by some filters? When I made the OP I ran across a photo of Eben Byers after his jaw issue, and it was rather… gruesome. I decided against putting it in the post, even with a NSFW marker, but I’m not sure what would have happened if I tried.
I was thinking one with more tumors.
Here’s the wikipedia photo of them anyway. 1922.
Tried to upload photos of the radium girls, but the instance wouldn’t let me.
Looks cooler than the recliner bikes they make these days. Does it come in adult size?
For sure, the damage over time is an interesting subject. Like lead has a direct exposure effect (IQ loss) but I’m not sure if that passes down to subsequent generations. Maybe though… in epigenetics, there are multi generation effects. Even it doesn’t, there might still be indirect impacts. Like your society makes worse choices for itself on average, and the effects of those choices go on to cause multi generational damage in other ways.
It must’ve been studied a lot by now, but I don’t know much about it.
Soon to be FDA approved.
I think we’re paying for lead to this day! It causes intellectual impairment and all kinds of other lasting nastiness. At least we’ve taken big steps to remove it from our lived environment, so the effects are less today than in the 70s, and it should continue to get better in the future.
We still have a TON of pseudoscience “medicine” around today of course. Homeopathy, using magnets to “cure” things magnets cannot possible cure, “crystal healing”, techno-babble quackery like “quantum healing”, etc. But most of it at least is on the “useless but harmless” end of the scale, not the “makes your jaw fall off” end! Although, if it stops people from getting legit health care and treating their cancer with sham cures rather than evidence based medicine, that is a type of harm too.
It would be cool to have one of those bottles as a conversation piece
I HAD ONE. IT WAS LEGENDARY.
Well, my family had one… That counts. Had to share it.
Is this how Hexbear got started?
It’s just like racing pods back home on Tatooine.
Especially if you left it outside in the hot Arizona sun.
I couldn’t remember what it was from, but I 100% pictures this entire fake commercial in my head when I saw this thing. lol
Like I said, many injuries. Plus, your feet were the brakes/stabilizers, so they were too busy keeping you alive to pedal.
I tried and tried to get my kid to ride bikes without training wheels and he refused, always preferred his scooter. Then his friends got annoyed that he couldn’t keep up and BOOM. He knows.
Edit: I worded that poorly. His friends taught him in like 2 days to ride without at age 10, when I’d been trying for like 5 years.
Because that shit was cool as hell. I had one as a kid (not the original, but a 2000s variant). Unwieldy as hell but man was it fun as a kid to make turns that sharp while sitting that low to the ground.