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HEAD OF YEAR — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:13:00 -0000

AH PONCE, GLAD TO SEE YOU'RE MAKING GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME. THEY SAID YOU'D COME TO NOTHING PONCE, BUT YOU SHOWED THEM ALL WITH YOUR LITTLE MACHINE THAT ENABLES YOU TO INTERACT WITH A WATER DROPLET. WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT IT? I SEE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR YOU PONCE IF ONLY YOU COULD ESCAPE THE PAST.

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Jon — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:32 -0000

The Japanese comment was describing the thing

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Pereira — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:46:41 -0000

The glass isn't half empty or half full, you're all just stupid.

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gazman — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:41:59 -0000

top banana .......

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Kris — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:56:35 -0000

Who the hell cares if it was done before!
God some of you people are tight-a** fools!
Simple-plain fact: its a neat device and it was made from cheap, easy-to-get parts to demonstrate a cool effect of strobes.
Yes, i've seen strobes many times, hell i killed the power in the house once using a strobe.

Would you idiots be saying the same if someone built another pyramid?
Those were done centuries ago, hell, millenia ago, those certainly arent new!
Yet if someone build them, even if it happens to be the glass one an asian company hope to build sometime in the next few decades, it would still be cool!

I hate idiots, i really do.

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Edzar — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:53:49 -0000

That's fun to watch! I saw a similar device at SIGGRAPH once. It had a grid of multiple valves controlled by a computer, plus strobes. By controlling the timing of each valve, it could make pyramids and cubes out of water drops. As cool as it was, I still liked watching the needle poking the drop of water better.

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WilliamKF — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:06:08 -0000

Yes Edgerton invented it at MIT but it is still really cool many year later!

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LART — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:10:48 -0000

I want to buy two! :)

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that guy — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:36:06 -0000

if someone sold these at around $20 or so dollars, they would make a killing. (i have no idea how much parts cost, that's just a complete guess.)

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Pat — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:34:10 -0000

Sweeeeheeeeet.

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Jadefox — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:09:28 -0000

For those who did not enjoy this project /wrist

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mike tooms — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:48:11 -0000

that is really awesome i liked it when they broke up the drope while it was on the suspended in mid-air setting

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Anonymous — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:39:08 -0000

I loved these at Quark's Bar in Las Vegas last year for their Warp Core Breach and some other drinks. They put the glass under the "tap" and drops slowly fell into the glass, quickly filling it up. I figured they did it with strobe lights but this makes me want to make one for myself at home now.

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Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:35:41 -0000

Yeah, it's like all these new bands that keep coming out, playing the guitar and drums. Old bands have been doing it for years, and I happen to have some LPs to prove it. It's not amazing to hear a guitar played well anymore, and all bands should stop making music. Who cares if you know how to play a song on a guitar? That's old news. Come back when you've invented your own musical instrument, not based on old technology. And don't even play music, that's old crap. I may be slightly impressed if you can create an instrument that can cure cancer, and solve all the world's problems. But then again, I had that idea, like 10 years ago, so I won't be too impressed. In fact, I should probably kill myself because nothing is cool anymore. Come on, all you cool kids who have already seen it all, and can probably recite all the lyrics to every song ever written, including songs whose lyrics are just a ripoff of some lyrics you already heard. But then again, don't. I already know someone who already committed suicide because the world was such a joke. But then, you already knew that, didn't you? You are so cool. I want to be your friend.

Good job on the gizmo, by the way. :)

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Lacquerhead — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:32:39 -0000

Very nice. Artistic and, in the most technical sense of the word, trippy. And being painfully mechanically inept I could never build one, but then, that's what sharper image is for.
Thank you David Ponce, and thank you internet.

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Keith L. Dick — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:38:41 -0000

Very Slick... I wonder how long before Sharper Image starts selling them???... hehe

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Jimbo — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:56:22 -0000

I'll go ahead and call it art. Beautifully rendered with wonderful music. For a little demo vid quite mezmorizing. I've seen strobe art before and this was as wonderful an example.

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SPark — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:21:27 -0000

I join the sensible people here in admiring this thing. It's spiffy-neat! Sure the idea's been around forever, but so? Nobody's done much with it before, have they? It's all well and good to say "Hey, I saw this at a musem." The Museum paid somebody $$$$$ to make that exhibit. This is something that you could duplicate for a few bucks and have one of your own! Totally awesome!

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SomeTrollWithNoLife — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:01:53 -0000

[sarcasm]
Yeah, so like, all the things you've seen, I've seen them 20 years ago and I know the guy who originally invented them. So, like, when you think something's cool, it's actually not, because I've been telling people how not-cool it is for 20 years by that point.

So don't ever bother to do anything, because by the time you've done it, I'll have already told people that it's not cool, and they will all laugh at you.
[/sarcasm]

Seriously, people. The video was neat. Leave it at that.

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Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:23:33 -0000

It does not matter in the least who came up with idea first. This an execution of it with style and grace. It sounds like this was done by someone in their spare time and produced an impressive product. Therefor, I say this project is extremely impressive.

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Rest — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:58:05 -0000

This was done decades ago by Harold Edgerton, who not only did amazing things with high speed cameras, but he created the strobe light. He created this which can be seen as it is in the video with the human eye.

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jcacedit — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:55:48 -0000

I think the comment in Chinese is saying "you rip me off. I sue yo ass!!" seriously, i can see this being sold at the Sharper Image.

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Chuck — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:09:34 -0000

It's cool. I've seen the effect with strobelights before (say with a fan) but never thought about pairing it with drops of water. Thanks for a fresh viewpoint.

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GSL — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:54:27 -0000

Oh, and here's your pump, you smarmy anonymous idiot. Or a wiper-fluid pump would probably do. Or any tiny bilge pump from a boating supply store.

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GSL — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:41:26 -0000

Geez, some of you are the most cynical jackasses I've ever seen. Just because something is based off an idea that has "been around for decades" doesn't mean it isn't still cool to watch.

STFU and go back to listening to Bauhaus and contemplating about how "life = pain", thank you.