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X-Ray Mirror   (+1, -2)  [vote for, against]
For a Deeper Level of Grooming...and More

The plate copies that the doctors provide are nice conversation pieces for a while. But the novelty soon goes south. Would it not be great if we could see our own skulls in action without leaving the house?

Frighten first-time guests. Compare relative supraorbital construction with friends.

Ambient radiation seems the only downside.
-- The Military, Jun 28 2001

How does an X-Ray machine work? http://www.howstuff....com/question18.htm
[angel, Jun 28 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Build your own. http://www.noah.org/science/x-ray/stong/
[angel, Jun 28 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

B&W Mirror http://www.halfbake...idea/B_26W_20mirror
A big nod to beauxault's retro-reflection device, as well. [The Military, Jun 28 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Fluoroscope. http://encarta.msn....dex/4f/04f0c000.htm
'The subject to be diagnosed is placed between the X-ray tube and the fluorescent screen. ' [angel, Jun 28 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

WIBNI.
-- jutta, Jun 28 2001


YIW. The practicality of visual phrenology is a given!
-- The Military, Jun 28 2001


It could probabley be built in a similar way to the self-righting mirror ie. with a camera(in this case x-ray) and a large monitor...
-- RobertKidney, Jun 28 2001


It probably couldn't; a camera depends on visible light reflected off the subject, x-ray photography needs a source of x-rays which pass through the subject onto the film. (link)
-- angel, Jun 28 2001


Exactly, Robert! PeterSealy's techno looking-glass was, indeed, my inspiration.

angel, think "flourescope" and I believe you'll begin to see the possibilities.
-- The Military, Jun 28 2001


X-ray machines used to be much more common. Shoestores, for example, used to have X-ray fluoroscopes which customers could use to check the fit of their shoes. Store owners would often let kids use the machine for fun. They probably would have had home X-ray machines if there were any use for them.

But there's no real use for this, and now we know more about the dangers of ionizing radiation.
-- egnor, Jun 28 2001


Might we then agree to the fact that, within the parameters of safety and practicality, engineering mirrors to do things other than that which they do remains a concept worthy of pursuit?
-- The Military, Jun 29 2001



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