Dalibor Farny is a great example of bringing nixie tubes back into existence purely by determination and deep research. https://www.daliborfarny.com

This reminds me of an old Wired interview with Danny Hillis when he developed a system called Babble that used unintelligible vocal bits as background sound to help concentration, too bad it never really went anywhere. https://www.wired.com/2005/06/applied-minds-think-remarkably...

A number of noise generators have that sort of nonsensical babble as a component of the sound. For instance

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat...

Nothing that your mind has enough edges on to try to interpret, but vaguely human-like.

mynoise's Cafe Restaurant generator got me through years of working in a noisy open office. Can't recommend it enough. I put the cutlery noises on mute though.

For me that would be the worst kind of distraction: always triggered by sounds of communication, never able to recognize what is said.

I suspect not all such statistical results apply uniformly to all people.

Yes I have the opposite. I can focus better when I'm working from a coffee shop and I don't understand what people are saying.

Polychromatic acousto-optic modulation hasn't been used in laser shows for quite some time since RGB diode based laser systems came about. Granted, nothing beats a mixed gas ion laser and PCAOM for the beautiful colors you can get but these days nobody misses dragging around water hoses and sorting out 60 Amps of three phase power to run those old beasts.

This one from 2013 when the Chromebook Pixel was announced was pretty great too. https://tomsepe.com/portfolio/google-pixeltree/

I remember when someone adapted the Chromebook Pixel display as a standalone monitor [0]. I’m sure it made the rounds here. I was almost tempted to do it myself because, at the time, it was a nice 4:3 screen. I couldn’t , the Chromebook Pixel was too beautiful to hack up.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2015/05/02/excruciating-quest-turns-chr...

Absolutely check out Refik Anadol, amazing contemporary work.

https://refikanadol.com https://refikanadolstudio.com

However hazardous cargo is not allowed in tunnels so bridges like this one are the only way hazmat can be transported over water crossings.

On the news this morning a commentator made it sound like that rule was imposed after 9/11.

It makes sense to me that cargo would be restricted, and it's bizarre that it would be related to terrorism (an additional rule isn't going to prevent an attack...).

It's still a sensible rule. As we see with this incident rare events do happen.

And a digital version was made into a Eurorack modular synth module as well. http://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/telharmonic

Marshall, a company that makes miniature video cameras used in broadcast has a great USB camera that is UVC1.5 compliant, you can change lenses, it's not that big, and has great image quality.

https://marshall-usa.com/cameras/CV503-U3/

That looks great, but I do think I’ve just discovered my price ceiling for caring about how I look on Zoom calls.

It's also $400. I was excited until I saw the price.

There is an amazing alternate control software package for Stream Deck called Companion that allows for control of many AV products and really opens up the possibilities of what can be done with the SD: https://bitfocus.io/companion/