{"id":169,"date":"2004-07-25T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=169"},"modified":"2004-07-25T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2004-07-25T19:48:54","slug":"166-head-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"#166 :: Head Lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/07\/072404.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/07\/072404.html', <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-price.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">online<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialisbuy.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">nurse<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrabuyonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">click<\/a> &#8216;width=500, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrafreepills.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">side effects<\/a> height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8242;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/07\/072404-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Blue-green metal in concentric descending rectangles form a frozen vortex. It was grown in a lab, so pure is its shape. An inch long, it could be the set for a remake of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0010323\/\"><i>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/i><\/a> as staged by subatomic robots. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=rectangle+concentric+crystal+metal&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\">Googled<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=metal+crystals&#038;btnG=Search\">Googled<\/a> and can find no hint as to its true nature.  The gift box it came in years ago has long since shed its tiny slip of paper with explanatory text. I&#8217;d be grateful if anyone out there could help me identify the metal.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/07\/072504.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/07\/072504.html', <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-order.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">viagra 40mg<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;,&#8217;width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8242;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/07\/072504-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/wire\/story\/TWB20001212S0015\">invention of the white LED<\/a> has sparked a renaissance in personal illumination. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energizer.com\/company\/companyhistory.asp\">carbon-battery-powered torch in 1899<\/a> began pushing back the darkness around us at night that was only somewhat held at bay by oil and kerosene lamps. Beef that up into brick-sized 9-volt-powered floods, tweak it into the shape of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavoice.org\/article143.html\">cop&#8217;s metal nightstick<\/a> &#8211; there&#8217;s not much more room for improvement. Batteries die. The light fades in 10 hours or so, and you&#8217;re left with a heavy implement full of dead weight. But this &#8211; this is a miner&#8217;s lamp for the digital era, a tiny sun with a hundred hours of life strapped to my forehead. I strap this thing on whenever I have to excavate beneath my desk for some lost plug, jack or thingummy. It came into the house a while back as a gift for my son, but I&#8217;m using it until he can be trusted not to leave it on and completely drain its $8 battery every time he uses it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invention of the white LED has sparked a renaissance in personal illumination. The carbon-battery-powered torch in 1899 began pushing back the darkness around us at night that was only somewhat held at bay by oil and kerosene lamps. 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