What’s your tech fascination

Like something that makes you go wow thats amazing how this works for me it’s analogue music playback device like records and tapes i love how a tape deck works viva rollers and moving spools and is played using magnetic heads and records are litterly played by a stylus picking up the sound waves snd are then amplified by a pre amp 

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  • See I prefer things like this such as prisims and how light works i once spent months and months studying 35mm cameras with the film door open to see how each Fstop looked from the inside snd to see how a good and a ba ld curtain looked from the inside like how a bad one makes light leaks 

  • I first saw peppers ghost at the Manchester science and industry museum sadly all of what I Remember there has been replaced it makes me sad when they change everything in a museum at least wirh the Liverpool life museum they had the decency to rebuild into a  new museum so I didn’t get reminded of wher my fave exists stayed for years 

  • It seems the science of it is a lot less interesting though:

    • The hologram substrate stores 3D information of a place / object. We can visualise even places that have disappeared.
    • The peppers ghost tricks audience by using light reflected from an object invisible to the audience. The light is directed by a mirror into a perfectly transparent glass (so much that no one notices it exists.) But if the scene disappears, the illusion disappears.