LOUDNESS BUT WITHOUT A MUTE BUTTON

LOUDNESS BUT WITHOUT A MUTE BUTTON

Eeeeeh, when I wor a lad, you could buy a PX4, a penny of chips, a bottle of Double Diamond and still have change out of a tanner.     It was a halcyon time when small children were terrified by pepperpot shaped monsters without legs and shonkily created robots dressed in Garry Glitter's old clothes.

When I grew a little older, I was't so much terrified but disturbed by these creatures from The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.  

Did you know that the term Bionic was coined in 1958 byJack E Steele - a retired USAF Colonel and psychiatrist as a melding of Biology and Electronic to describe the study of biological organisms to find solutions to engineering problems.  Snowflakes have now changed the name to Biomimetics and I'll bet there's an app for that!

Bionics was popularized by the 1970s U.S. television series The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, both of which were based on the Sci-fi novel Cyborg by Martin Caiden.  All three stories featured humans given various superhuman powers by their electromechanical implants.

History lesson now over, consider the still shot below, its disturbing seeing point to point wiring, tag boards and Texas instruments semiconductors in this image BUT also what isn't there........

 



As Mrs. Trimble my old English teacher used to say, compare and contrast the above with the still shot below:-




Well, it's a bionic woman with lustrous long hair and a sequence of sexy resistors for a nose.  AND just like in real life, she has something the man doesn't have....... yes,  it's a loudspeaker for a mouth.   OK its only a 2.5 inch effort from a pocket transistor radio but I'll bet it's bionically louder than many ladies - even Mrs Mullard Magic!!!!!

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