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tape
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 Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: strangest format ever |
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this patent http://www.wikipatents.com/6512727.html-3
describes a talking drinking straw with record grooves:-)
suppoesed to be played back by a pickup inside a soda can.
very very strange.
Does anybody knows if this was ever produced? |
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emorritt
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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I want some of what this guy was taking...  |
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mossboss
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:09 pm Post subject: Straws |
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Eric
I want some as well Cheers
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blacknwhite
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| Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Nice find, Tape!
There is some AWESOME wieeeerd stuff you can find in US Patent searches for phonograph-related stuff; some are very entertaining! You always wonder which ever made it to production.
including the patents for stereo vertical-and-lateral acoustic grammophone recordings from the 1910's... One even proposed using the top side of the disc for one channel, and the bottom side for the other, with two pickups, one spring-loaded on the underside...
DANG, I need more time for "My Experiments" (said in a Dr. Frankenstein voice)... seems like the harder I try to find time, the more sh*t happens to get in the way
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tape
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drdub
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:34 am Post subject: |
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this could be flo's new projekt... 
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mossboss
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:00 pm Post subject: Patents |
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Hey all
Would this be "Fuzzy Logic" by the way
It sounds like a lot of the 1 or 2 time posters right here
Or another project He He
Cheers
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Jesus H Chrysler
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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here's another strange one:
I have a tin toy service station made by marx in the 40's called "happi time talking service station". it has a strip that runs across the base in front of the gas pumps and originally came with a car that had a needle that would play`the sound when pushed across it. I've never heard it since I don't have the car but it was supposed to say "gas and oil, please" |
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emorritt
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| That sounds like the "Hey Fatso" board game from the late 60's. It came with the typical board, player pieces, cards, etc. but also had a plastic molded strip with grooves (vertically modulated) and a plastic needle/diaphragm reproducer that players would sit on the strip and various messages would play as it was dragged along, instructing players to move somewhere, pick a card, etc. Didn't know it had been done in the 40's. |
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