False positives sound like an unpleasant process to discover. I wonder how many times those happened.

Edit. Also, though there are no recorded cases of a true positive, I wonder if there were false negatives, like someone really was alive, but nobody noticed the bell, or the mechanism failed in some way. Wikipedia does mention,

and a demonstration in which one of Karnice-Karnicki’s assistants had been buried alive ended badly when the signalling systems failed

Apparently there’s another folklore, also false, that “saved by the bell” referred to this practice. It’s boxing related, which is more plausible, but less fun.

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That’s the version Sam Jackson gets.

Seems everything you’d buy through the mail in those days, both sham and legit products alike, was sold could be bought C.O.D.

By the time the real DTMF phones appeared, they did get the the keypad into the base, so the handset part was still slim. Not sure if that was all of them, or just some models. But it looked like so:

I am wondering about those wings, too. They’re tiny compared to her size. Let’s say she is 100 lbs. How fast do they have to move to let her hover, as she is shown doing? The only hovering animals we have are small. An Osprey can hover for a very short time, at high energy cost, but they weigh only a few lbs and have much bigger wings relative to their body. There must be some incredible bio-materials going on with Psyche.

Also, no way is she gliding with those, which an Osprey can do. It’d have to be active lift at all times.

Yeah - eek. That’s rather … open and brazen, isn’t it.

This appears to be the painting they bought the rights to.

Wow… of course there’s an HP calculator museum!

I didn’t know it was the first pocket calculator with transcendentals. Very interesting, thanks for sharing the link!

We thought you’d like to have something only fictional heroes like James Bond, Walter Mitty or Dick Tracy are supposed to own.

Last but not least.

Some others, wouldn’t fit in main post,

YW! I’ll eventually get bored with it, but I’m on a nostalgia bender at the moment. Maybe it’s a form of escapism from the troubles of the present. Not that the past didn’t have its own troubles, but… they’re in the past.

I didn’t know the name and had to look that one up!

with an unusual intuitive sensitivity for branding, manifested primarily in her physical aversion to particular logos and corporate mascots.

That reminds me of how they used to advertise alcohol as being good for pregnant women. Which it kind of… you know… isn’t, but it got lodged pretty deeply into some cultures.

The ad mentions a cap and a 4sec delay, so I imagine this is something much the same as that.

I watched somebody play it on youtube, and it seemed like a few notes of 1812 played when the game was over. Heavy on few! The ad copy saying it features the 1812 overture is… a stretch!

Did anything stop someone from getting good enough to play it indefinitely on one quarter? Like some undefeatable game mechanic?

Thanks! Will edit post for accuracy.

You could almost say… they went bananas. But it took a bunch of them to come up with that idea.

The more I think about this the more I can see the a-peel of it.