Mark Feeney
1948: The Polaroid camera Express/Express // Getty Images 1948: The Polaroid camera Many refer to Polaroid as the Apple of their time, which would make Edwin Land that era's Steve Jobs. Land dropped out of Harvard and started his company utilizing new polarizing technology; in 1948, Polaroid...
Most of us don't write the way we did in first or second grade. And while two or more people may share a couple of individual characteristics, the chance of those people sharing 20 or 30 individual characteristics is so unlikely that many handwriting analysts would say it's impossible. Sty...
The Salesman and the Polaroid I knew of one guy who had great people and sales skills, borrowed a Polaroid camera, went to a tourist area here in San Diego one night, and made hundreds of dollars selling couples photos of themselves on vacation. He wouldn't take no for an answer!
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A brief history of the camera brand Bronica, which tried to give the legendary company Hasselblad a run for its money.
the automobile’s cruise-control system maintains a nearly constant speed up hill and down. These mechanical and electrical governors are similar to their political counterparts—governors who keep the ship-of-state on course, steering as Odysseus did between Scylla and Charybdis, a rock and a har...
How They Did It: Bayard simply staged the scene and wrote a misleading caption. The photo is influential as the first ever faked photograph, so at least Bayard got into the history books for something… The Falling Soldier Wasn't Dying, He Was Acting ...
Although Edwin Land, inventor of thePolaroidcamera, was the first to build a device using suspended particle devices (SPDs), the actual discovery of light-absorbing crystals can be credited to a dog. SPD technology was first discovered more than 100 years ago. As the story goes, the dog of...
Kogan’s new firmware (which arrived a week or two after they promised it) did indeed fix the brightness problem, but it introduced a brand new and perhaps even more annoying problem – a weird volume spike everytime you turned the TV on. ...