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May 18 1954 B. SHELDON, JR
AU,'I'OMATIC COIN COUNTING AND WRAPPING DEVICE Filed March 8, 1950 2 Sheets- Sheet l INVENTOR. BUTLER SHELDON JR.
May 18, 1954 B. SHELDON, JR
AUTOMATIC com COUNTiNG AND WRAPPING DEVICE Filed March 8. 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A TTOENEY .of ,coins.
Patented May 18, 1954 AUTOMATIC COIN COUNTING WR P DE QE Butler Sheldon Jr., New York, N, Y1, assignor to Coin Counters Corporation, New York, N. Y., a.
corporation Ap lication March 8 0. seri Nc- 2 59 1 Claim. 1
hi ve i elat s o a c n c unt ng a Wrapp n d vice.
Broadly, it is an object of the invention to provide a simp e de e whi h il au smatica ly count coins of the same denomination and which permits the coins tobe wrapped.
More particularly, it is an object of the invention to provide a device which permits the automatic counting of coins and which is adapted to receive either a tube within which the coins so counted may be easily wrapped, or which can take an outside wrapper which r i the counted coins to be quickly and easily wrapped.
A further object of the invention is to provide a device which will permit either a tubular or a flat wrapper to be used to package a predetermined number of coins.
Another object is to facilitate the packagin of coins of uniform diameter, or denomination, each package containinga predetermined number of coins, which is the capacity of each operation of the device and which in that sense automatically counts the coins in every package.
The device is adapted to count and package coins of dilferent denominations by varying the diameter and height of the tube for the different coins, such as pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars; the object being to rapidly count and package the well-known cylindrical packages of uniform coins by those, who in the course of their business, accumulate such coins in large numbers and wrap such coins in rolls for bank deposit, each roll representing a specific amount of money, for convenience in handling and counting.
Other advantages will become obvious and will be further described in the following specification.
For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention reference is had to the following detailed description in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:
Fig. l is a perspective View of the device.
Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the device shown in Fig. 1 with a column of coins of the same denomination therein.
Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2, showing a paper tube placed within the device prior to the feeding of coins therein.
Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the device showing the paper wrapper in raised position after the coins have been placed therein to the top of the device.
Fig. 5 is a top view of the deviceshown in the previous figures.
Fig. 6 is a front view of the device having a column of like coins therein showing use of an outside paper wrapper fcr wrapping the column Fie- 7 shows t e a ics Pa r rapp p d ar und th t b con in he col m 9? Gems s ShQWn n Fie- 6 w th t e upp end f th W a e fol d downwa d l n 011s nd f th column Q coins Eiss h w t e Wra ped w n a sh in Fis- I w th ill l vi Withd a f q he 9 of coins and wrapper sealed at one end and ready to be sealed at the opposite end.
Referring to the drawings, numeral I0 represents a counting and wrapping device which comprises a base l l and an open-endedtube 12 which is'Q t is instals ss II i hollow, h g a sti m !3 1 1 9 wh ch t evi rests nd h t be I2 firml ss sd W n t base o is n e r wi h t a sl w W i i bass H i ing int h e there is a at orm msie sr hi a a nd upper sad oncave sid 6 and s fis 19 o 19 srm H- Th es er s rs m s s o the rounded end I5 is somewhat spaced apart from the internal diameter of the tube H2. The base portion it of the platform member It is also spaced slightly apart from the internal diameter o the b s t Th upper en 9 f u i2 has a pair of opposed channels 19 for the purpose hereinafter described. The distance from the platform H to the upper end 2|] of the tube [2 is the enact distance to receive a pred sm n d st ck o c i o a given n n tion. For example, if the tube is adapted to receive dimes, and it is desired to have five dollars in dim s QJ C 'WQ t pa e FW P h Plat form i1 and the upper end 29 of the tube [2 is t e safes i ta ce of the specs Qc u i by a a ra e spu s s fi t me st c o 1 1 the other so that in loading the dimes within the tub F by is sl ght m m of th de ic a dim sb v the u p r s ls wi l m r Off the stack e upper me abo end 2J c be wiped or? with the fingers, automatically leaving exactly fifty dimes within the tube 12.
A P r d Paper tub a pp :21 of P d mi .ls ih show i .F lean of a e ht th t Wil ea $91 h inner 93 9 s i ls ttom is t s b l w t s u er n i a d a i me r ght ss than the nt rn di me er 9 th bs i t ,ms rfisd it the tube l2 and between the stack of dimes and the internal diameter of the tube [2 to the inner portion 220i the base so that the upperend 23 of the paper tube M is slightly below the upper end 28 of the counting tube.
The rounded upper end lfi and thecurved base ortion i8 will permit the bottom end -26 of the tube 2i to easily pass between the platform member 14 and the internal diameters of the tube 12 e idtas l- Ell .qsncsv sid s is ar c t o conta t with he renteral! ssct s q s .tss s n .1 9 the a sing 9 the tu e 2 i order to avoid air pockets, two fine channels 29 and 36 have been provided leading into the interior of the device. Of course, such channels may be placed in any desired portions of the device without interfering with its operation.
The paper tube 2| may be inserted within the counting tube 2 either before the dimes are placed within the tube i2, or after the dimes have been placed within the tube l2. However, it is preferable to place the paper tube 2| within the tube l2 before the dimes are inserted within the device l0. Since the upper end 23 of the paper tube 2| is below the upper end 26 of the counting tube I2, it is evident that the paper tube 2| will in no way interfere with an accurate counting of the coins within the tube [2 because the upper coin will be above the upper end 23 of the paper tube 2 When there is a full stack of coins within the tube l2 and within the paper tube 2|, the index finger of the hand may then .be placed upon the uppermost coin of the stack and the thumb and middle fingers may then draw up the paper tube 2| by inserting the latter two fingers within the opposed slots |9. The paper tube 2| is then lifted upwardly above end to a height sufiioient to permit the upper end of thepaper tube 2| to be folded over the uppermost coin of the stack leaving sufficient paper below the bottom coin of the stack for folding over. Fig. 4 shows the paper tube 2| in a posilifted before folding over the upper ends tion so of said tube. Since the stack of coins presents a solid body with a comparatively sharp edge of the uppermost coin, it is easy to fold the end of the paper tube 2| over and upon the uppermost coin.
The device, including the stack of coins, is then reversed and the device is lifted off the paper tube 2| containing the column of coins therein in a manner similar to that shown in Fig. 8. Since the thin metal walls of the tube l2 provide a slight clearance, the coins, including the paper tube 2|, will easily be separated from the .tube i2 and thus permit the device to be easily ,lifted and separated from the paper tube 2| with the stack'of coins therein. Since the platform H is above the bottom 24 of the paper tube 2|, there will be sufficient paper to permit the lower end of the paper tube to be folded over the bottom coin, thus completely enclosing the stack of dimes or coins within the paper tube 2| in a package generally used by merchants in delivering wrapped coins to banks, or other institutions.
Referring to Figs. 6, 7 and 8 of the drawings, the device shown in such figures is the identical device shown in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive. The wrapping of the stack of coins will now be described with an outside paper wrapper of the flat type, well known in commercial use. After the coins have been inserted between the platform l1 and the upper end 26 of the tube l2 so that an exact number of coins have been counted, a fiat paper wrapper which is wider than the stack of coins is wrapped around the outside of the tube |2 in a manner shown in Fig. 6. One longitudinal edge 26 is placed so that it rests upon the shoulder 21 of the base II with the body of the wrapper against the outer circumference of the tube I2, leaving the opposite edge 28 extending somewhat beyond the upper end 20 of the tube l2. After the wrapper 25 has been wrapped completely'around the tube l2, the upper end of the wrapper 25 which extends above the stack of coins, is folded downwardly, as shown in Fig. 7. The device, including the stack of coins, is
. coins within the wrapper 25.
then turned upside down. It will be noted that the platform I! is higher than the edge 26 and shoulder 21 (see Fig. 6) so that when the device is turned upside down, the edge 26 of the wrapper 25 will be higher than the bottom coin which now has become the uppermost coin. Fig. 8 shows the device separated from the stack of The opposite edge 26 of the wrapper 25 is then folded downwardly in a manner similar to that shown in Fig. 7 thus completely enclosing the stack of coins suitable and acceptable 7 for deposit in the customary manner in banks.
It should be noted that in the use of the device, both with the tubular wrapper 2| and with the outside fiat paper wrapper 25, that the end portions of the tube or wrapper when folded downward upon the stack of coins, will fold upon a hard surface of the face of the end coin so that at all times it will be easy to make a clean fold upon the ends of the stack of coins.
It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the general spirit of the invention.
I claim:
In combination, a coin counting and wrapping device, a hollow base having a bottom, a platform member fixed to said bottom within said base, said platform member having an upper fiat top, a rounded upper edge and concave sides, a tube integral with said base and of the same internal diameter as said base, the said rounded edge of said platform member spaced slightly from the inner circumference of said tube and said base, a paper tubular wrapper insertable between said platform member and said tube, said paper wrapper of a length to reach from said bottom to just below the upper end of said tube, air channels in said base and platform member leading from the outer atmosphere into said device, the distance between said top of said platform member and the upper end of said tube being of a predetermined height to automatically count an average stack of coins of a given denomination placed within said device, opposed slots at the upper end of said tube for the fingers of the hand to draw up said paper tubular wrapper above the upper end of said tube, whereby the upper edge of said paper wrapper may be folded downward upon the upper coin of said References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 613,408 Cable Nov. 1, 1893 1,034,569 Batdorf Jan. 13, 1914 1,274,615 Sherwood Aug. 6, 1918 1,457,261 Mathews May 29, 1923 1,919,963 Smith July 25, 1933 2,072,191 Wagner Mar. 2, 1937 2,444,804 Carruthers July 6, 1948 2,554,713 McKay May 29, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 218,646 Germany Feb. 7, 1910 553,110 Germany Jan; 12, 1933
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It is one thing to build single industrial IoT applications, but what will it take to build the Smart Cities and truly society-changing applications of the future? The technology won't be the problem, it will be the number of parties that need to work together and be aligned in their motivation to succeed. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jason Mondanaro, Director, Product Management at Metanga, discussed how you can plan to cooperate, partner, and form lasting all-star teams to change the world...
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The Internet of Everything (IoE) brings together people, process, data and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before – transforming information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. IoE creates new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented opportunities to improve business and government operations, decision making and mission support capabilities.
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Public Cloud IaaS started its life in the developer and startup communities and has grown rapidly to a $20B+ industry, but it still pales in comparison to how much is spent worldwide on IT: $3.6 trillion. In fact, there are 8.6 million data centers worldwide, the reality is many small and medium sized business have server closets and colocation footprints filled with servers and storage gear. While on-premise environment virtualization may have peaked at 75%, the Public Cloud has lagged in adop...
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How do you securely enable access to your applications in AWS without exposing any attack surfaces? The answer is usually very complicated because application environments morph over time in response to growing requirements from your employee base, your partners and your customers. In his session at @DevOpsSummit, Haseeb Budhani, CEO and Co-founder of Soha, shared five common approaches that DevOps teams follow to secure access to applications deployed in AWS, Azure, etc., and the friction an...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a software development company, will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software development company with representative offices in Atlanta (US), Sheffield (UK) and Würzburg (Germany); and development centers in Ukraine. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobi...
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Digital Transformation is the ultimate goal of cloud computing and related initiatives. The phrase is certainly not a precise one, and as subject to hand-waving and distortion as any high-falutin' terminology in the world of information technology. Yet it is an excellent choice of words to describe what enterprise IT—and by extension, organizations in general—should be working to achieve. Digital Transformation means: handling all the data types being found and created in the organizat...
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The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), which enables organizations to seamlessly run in a hybrid cloud model (public + private cloud), is here to stay. IDC estimates that the software-defined networking market will be valued at $3.7 billion by 2016. Security is a key component and benefit of the SDDC, and offers an opportunity to build security 'from the ground up' and weave it into the environment from day one. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin,...
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The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems. What does this mean for today's IT professional? In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed this very serious issue of pro...
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Discussions about cloud computing are evolving into discussions about enterprise IT in general. As enterprises increasingly migrate toward their own unique clouds, new issues such as the use of containers and microservices emerge to keep things interesting. In this Power Panel at 16th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed the state of cloud computing today, and what enterprise IT professionals need to know about how the latest topics and trends affect t...
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Countless business models have spawned from the IaaS industry. Resell Web hosting, blogs, public cloud, and on and on. With the overwhelming amount of tools available to us, it's sometimes easy to overlook that many of them are just new skins of resources we've had for a long time. In his General Session at 16th Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, Lead Technology Evangelist at SoftLayer, broke down what we've got to work with and discuss the benefits and pitfalls to discover how we can best use them to d...
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Puppet Labs has announced the next major update to its flagship product: Puppet Enterprise 2015.2. This release includes new features providing DevOps teams with clarity, simplicity and additional management capabilities, including an all-new user interface, an interactive graph for visualizing infrastructure code, a new unified agent and broader infrastructure support.
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Midvale ski hotel with ski storage, ski passes
- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
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- 98 guestrooms
- Indoor pool
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- Air conditioning
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- Lobby fireplace
- Front desk safe
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- Jungle Jim's Playland (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Fashion Place Mall (2.1 mi / 3.4 km)
- Pebblebrook Golf Links (2.8 mi / 4.6 km)
- Gardner Village (3.6 mi / 5.7 km)
- Rio Tinto Stadium (3.8 mi / 6.1 km)
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast daily
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- Indoor pool
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- Ski passes available
- Fitness facilities
- Spa tub
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- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 600
- Conference space size (meters) - 54
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Picnic area
- Fireplace in lobby
- Television in lobby
- Disabled parking
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- Braille or raised signage
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- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
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- Climate control
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- Private bathroom
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- Flat-screen TV
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We still need a single-payer program. We have to go beyond the Affordable Care Act. Too many people are still suffering and dying prematurely.
Michigan's right-to-work law is about recreating the 19th century social order.
David Masciotra is the author of Working On a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen (Continuum Books, 2010). He is currently at work on his second book, Faith That Won't Die, a work of literary journalism about life in the American Rust Belt. For more information, visit www.davidmasciotra.com.


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Bats fly using recycled energy stored in biceps and triceps
Washington: A new study on fruit bats used cutting edge technology to see how these small mammals move through the air.
According to Dr Nicolai Konow (Brown University, USA), who led the research, "Energy is stored in the triceps tendon, which is used to power elbow extension - in essence, elbow extension happens using `recycled` energy. State of knowledge, and our results, indicates that bats are unique among small mammals in stretching their tendons, as small mammal limb tendons are thought to be too thick and stiff to be stretched."
"By combining information about skeletal movement with information about muscle mechanics, we found that the biceps and triceps tendons of small fruit bats are stretched and store energy as the bat launches from the ground and flies vertically," he said.
The researchers used a cutting edge 3D imaging technology called XROMM (X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology) that allows visualizing rapid internal skeletal movement.
XROMM combines 3D models of bone morphology with movement data from biplanar x-ray video to create highly accurate re-animations of the 3D bones moving in 3D space.
The researchers also used a novel method called fluoromicrometry, where small radio opaque markers are implanted directly into muscle, which allows measuring length change with high precision and accuracy during contractions.
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As we look to 2013, it's a common practice amongst designers to think about the future of design. The future, indeed, is quite exciting, with 3D printing, open data, green innovation, automated cars and a slew of other new technologies and systems opening the doors for designers to play and create. But as we think about the future of design, I've also noticed that 2012 has seen the past creep in to designer's works in creative ways.
This year, I've written about a few projects involving design nostalgia. There were Evan Roth's popular Solitaire.exe playing cards, an analog throwback to the popular digital game and pre-social media time waster itself inspired by analog playing cards. Kyle Bean put together a set of nesting dolls of mobile phones, shrinking ever forward from the infamous DynaTAC, once a status symbol amongst the wealthy elite and now a laughable relic of the past. Each layer we uncover brings us closer to a future of mobile phone ubiquity while reminding us of the past technologies of their birth.
And looking even further into the past is the iTypewriter, Alan Yang's wacky mash-up of a physical typewriter with an iPad, which inspired a look at other nostalgic devices developed for iOS devices, which still feel futuristic, from an Atari joystick to the 1984 Mac OS GUI on a Macbook. That particular post prompted a variety of comments: reader C3 bashed it all as "hipster design... cute / fun / fluff pr / etc," while Renato Castilho offered a longer critique:
While the concept seems to have been carefully crafted, the very way it takes a forward-looking mobile device (which fits in an envelop [sic]) and makes it bulky, loud and cumbersome should be enough of a reason to shelf it [sic]—let alone the fact that it is by design less useable than the iPad screen or a regular Bluetooth keyboard...
It is certainly amusing, interesting, nostalgic but I can't really take it seriously. The amount of energy, thinking and effort put into making the new feel (or worse work) like the old could be better applied but hey, at least it assumes, unlike Microsoft's Surface, that a physical keyboard belongs on a table.
Most revealing is the reflexive nature of many of these projects. Take Walden Wegrzyn's Electrkobiblioteka, a physical version of an e-book with real paper pages that you can flip and touch. It's a book of an e-book of a book? And then there's Jeff Skierka's Mixtape Table, a throwback to eras when cassette tapes and plywood tables were trés chic. And if music isn't your thing, you can always turn to Neulant van Exel's Floppy Table, complete with a sliding compartment a la the classic metal shutter. And what does van Exel suggest we place inside? A remote control for a television, of course.
And perhaps because of their mix of futuristic design with populist appeal, Apple products continue to be a prime target for design nostalgia. After all, with more processing power in our phones than the computers used for the first Moon landing, what do we do? We take pictures, of course. And share them. So consider the Impossible Project's Instant Lab, a Kickstarter project to bring the Polaroid back to life through the iPhone. Moreover, if iPhone cases inspired by previous Apple designs isn't nostalgic enough for you, consider the origin of Apple's curious command key, designed by Susan Kare: a castle seen from above, an pictograph used by Swedish campgrounds to mark a popular tourism destination.
Back and back we go in design, even as our technologies march forward. It makes sense: design inspiration is everywhere, and often it comes from the past. The iTypewriter, while initially appearing silly, only makes sense because the basic keyboard format—down to the fact that we can still type out "TYPEWRITER" in the top row of the iPad keyboard—is derived directly from the typewriter. It's a layout that is used globally, even when it no longer makes sense to do so, such as in countries that don't use the Roman alphabet to begin with.
It's not always a useful practice, I think. A lively discussion on Core77's comment boards as far back as two years ago offered a spectrum of perspectives. On the one hand, throwbacks to previous designs, a practice known as skeuomorphism, can indeed be a bridge to a new and unfamiliar technology; imagine trying to learn how to use an iPad and having to learn the DVORAK keyboard layout. But on the other hand, these vestigial design strategies probably need to be discarded at some point. Writing in The Verge, Paul Miller kind of nailed it:
But it's not just functionality, there's something deeper that bugs me, about the decorations themselves. Like the ubiquitous drop shadow. "Did you know that this window is on top of this window?" it whispers to me, endlessly. Apple's love of reflections and faux 3D subtly imply to me that I might be lost, needing landmarks and a sense of place to find my way. Microsoft's oddly-sized minimize / maximize / close buttons in Windows 7 are only there to help, but they also hint at some lack of eye-hand coordination on my part. Soft edges, endless gradients, and rounded corners seem designed to keep me from hurting myself on an acute angle, as if the desktop is a choke-proof toy for babies, instead of a sharpened pencil. A huge graphical icon representing an app might look incredible and enticing, but after a while it's sort of oversharing. It's constantly reintroducing itself, in case I didn't catch its name the first time.
Core77's own hipstomp had his own thoughts, as he waxed optimistically about Jonathan Ive's takeover of Apple's human interface group:
Yes, I'm biased; I think skeuomorphism sucks. It doesn't add anything to my experience to have the Notes app look like a legal pad, or to have the top of my Calendar app look like it's made out of desk-ledger leather. And the Address Book software is terrible; it's made to look like a book, yet doesn't work like one—there's no easy way to flip pages from the All Contacts view.
These are all valid points, and I can't help but agree. I've been using computers for decades now; I don't need them to resemble my physical desktop anymore. While skeuomorphism sometimes has its place, it's often mired in an unnecessary past, rather than open to a expansive future.
But that's not what I'm looking at here.
If skeuomorphic design reflects the practical failures of design mired in the past, what I'm interested in is the emotional delights of deliberately designing for a rememberd past. I choose to call this phenomenon design nostalgia, rather than retro design. Nostalgia doesn't have a functional purpose, but it does have an emotional one. There's a certain joy at looking back while looking forward, the same way a momentous moment like graduation from design school might prompt us to look back at the challenging but mind-expanding assignments and projects that got us there.
And comfort, too. As we march toward the Great Unknown of our technological future, it's nice to look back at the familiar, take a deep breath, smile, and keep on marching.
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When we saw this photo, we thought we missed something in our History of Braun Products series. This minimalist turntable certainly looks like their handiwork: But nope, that's the Essential II model from modern-day manufacturer Pro-Ject Audio Systems, a company based in Austria. That design seems about as pared-down as
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Gerrit Cole will make another rehab start
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Pirates right-hander Gerrit Cole was dominant in a rehab start Sunday at Triple-A Indianapolis, allowing just one hit over six scoreless innings. But he only made it to 73 pitches in that outing so the Bucs will have him make one more appearance in the minor leagues, manager Clint Hurdle told Travis Sawchik of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Tuesday evening.
Cole has been on the disabled list since July 5 with a right lat injury and was scratched from a rehab start earlier this month for precautionary reasons. But he seems to be back on track now, which is great news for the second-place Pirates.
Cole, 23, owns a 3.46 ERA and 1.227 WHIP through his first 203 innings at the major league level.
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Sharon Klusener, long-time office manager for the Tom Harris State Farm Insurance Agency, is retiring after 37 years. She will be honored with a come-and-go reception from 3-5 p.m. Friday, July 26, at the agency office, 2112 10th St.
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LARNED - Nadine H. Reed, 93, died July 18 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born March 5, 1920, at Kincaid, she was the daughter of Harry and Bertha Foster. A longtime area resident, she was a homemaker.
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CLAFLIN - The governing body of the City of Claflin met in regular session July 8 at the city building. Present were: Mayor Michael Urban, Councilpersons Kirk Schneweis, Casey Hubbard, Doug Hubbard, Kelly Nixon and Dan Michaelis. Also present were: City Attorney Bob Suelter, City Clerk Patricia Schmidt, Robert Gunder, Richard Hayes, Mel Waite, Tyler Allison, Toby Holmes, Julie Smith, CiJi Folk and Dawnya Hickel. These are the unofficial minutes.
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Saturday's verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has sparked national outrage, and rightfully so. And yet, with much of the focus on race, there is an accomplice to Trayvon Martin's death that has, to a surprising degree, escaped scrutiny and a seat in the dock- guns, and our lenient, permissive approach to them. The fact that it's a repeat offender makes matters even worse.
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Donald Trump has jumped to the top of the national polls for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
Back on the Fourth of July, buried in the mumbo-jumbo of campaign rhetoric, was a statement by Democrat Martin O'Malley. The former Maryland governor ...
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