dual-use (urls)

[brian carroll]

Interesting. also, like how phrenology was discredited yet when
recontextualized via neuroimaging it seems a similar paradigm, just
different territory and cartography.

noting for completeness: connection of TENS and other such electronic
devices with kinky sex culture...

Erotic electrostimulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_electrostimulation

The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices is also in town here...
http://www.museumofquackery.com/

all of this reminds me of Alvin Toffler, (perhaps book Futureshock) who
advised taking company tours such as of manufacturing facilities to learn
how industry ecosystems function as another route to education, literacy,
learning. there is a quackery devices, Bakken, and also a broadcast museum
in town, though the advice extends towards visiting old mines, e.g. (MINOS
Detecter) [0] or other facilities. in Berkeley i had a tour of their
participle accelerator, fascinating to learn that a particle can be
suspended by magnets, held in a stationary position prior to being merged
with the other accelerating beam, or perhaps for being smashed into, i
forget. though in a security-paranoid environment even these basic
pleasures of learning seem off-limits in terms of ideas, on lock-down
potentially, perhaps most so the threat of reinterpretation challenging
ruling ideology. like every observer is a security threat and social
relations and ideas tunneling inside that.

[0] http://www.hep.umn.edu/minos/overview/


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Jim Bell <jamesdbell8 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> *From:* brian carroll <electromagnetize at gmail.com>
>  *To:* cypherpunks at cpunks.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:01 PM
> *Subject:* dual-use (urls)
>
> >Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century (via digg)
> >http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/bakken-museum/?viewall=true<http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/bakken-museum/?viewall=true>
>
> >[&] The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life
> >http://www.thebakken.org/ <http://www.thebakken.org/>
>
>     In 1978, I visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC for
> the first (and so far, only) time.  They had a display of "quack medical
> devices", that included a high-voltage AC device attached to glowing
> neon-bulb-type tubes.  The idea was that these tubes would be pressed
> against a person's flesh, thus capacitively coupled through the glass,
> including a glowing light within the tube,  and inducing a mild electrical
> current.  At the time, I accepted the idea that this was, indeed, an
> example of a "quack medical device".
>    In 1996, I began work at a Vancouver Washington
> contract-electronic-design/manufacturer firm.  One of the major products
> that this company made were "TENS" devices.  (Transcutaneous Electrical
> Nerve Stimulators   http://www.tensunits.com/ <http:///>   ).   They
> were/are intended to reduce chronic pain.  They worked in pretty much the
> same way that those "quack" early 1900's devices worked:  Cause a AC small
> current to flow within flesh.  What was thought to be 'quack' in 1978,
> turned out to not be 'quack' at all!
>        Jim Bell
>
>
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