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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Radio Guy Historic Novelty Collection

Filed under: the good old days...


Steve Erenberg has built quite a collection of unusual historic items, with a focus on medical and scientific curios. What you see above is not a prototype for Robocop, but rather, an education mannequin for dental students.

There's many more antique pieces profiled at his site, called Radio Guy. But while we're on the topic of dentistry and radio guys, we had to ask: is it true that people can pick up transmissions in their dental fillings? Cecil of Straight Dope explains, in this classic column.

Link: Radio Guy...

(hat tip: MAKE Blog)

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If memory serves, I recall Lucille Ball talking about picking up radio signals from her teeth on the Dick Cavett show.


Posted by: ninjagin
on October 14, 2009 02:46 PM GMT

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