Comments on: Genius hatcher (Aug, 1971) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: glenn http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-1062773 glenn Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:40:36 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/#comment-1062773 I have also wondered about this. Popular Science was a "leak site" for much technology. I believe the key is the partial logo visible in the pic. Going back to '71 and searching logos registered in Germany might produce results by indentifying the company. Identify the company, their research funding sources, you learn all. I'm of that vintage myself, (Grad High School '72, and, based on the excellent info in this same issue-which I have- I now own a 1975 GMC motorhome, which, (manufactured '73-'78 is considered by many to be the finest one ever built. I agree.) I also agree there is much more to this "learning egg", based on all things "dome". Anyone with the time and curiosity to check it out, please contact me with what you learn. Email: glennwmurphy@hotmail.com Peace in the Verse. I have also wondered about this. Popular Science was a “leak site” for much technology.

I believe the key is the partial logo visible in the pic. Going back to ’71 and searching logos registered in Germany might produce results by indentifying the company. Identify the company, their research funding sources, you learn all.

I’m of that vintage myself, (Grad High School ’72, and, based on the excellent info in this same issue-which I have- I now own a 1975 GMC motorhome, which, (manufactured ’73-’78 is considered by many to be the finest one ever built. I agree.)

I also agree there is much more to this “learning egg”, based on all things “dome”.

Anyone with the time and curiosity to check it out, please contact me with what you learn.

Email: glennwmurphy@hotmail.com

Peace in the Verse.

]]> By: Fred Rated http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-1032642 Fred Rated Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:38:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/#comment-1032642 This confirms my feelings about the 1970s, which I am barely old enough to remember - it truly was a decade chock full of silliness and bad ideas. This confirms my feelings about the 1970s, which I am barely old enough to remember – it truly was a decade chock full of silliness and bad ideas.

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-1029402 Stannous Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:06:20 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/#comment-1029402 Didn't Barbarella have sex in one of these? Didn’t Barbarella have sex in one of these?

]]> By: Andreas http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-1028336 Andreas Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:58:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/#comment-1028336 They were allowed to advertise products with ridiculous claims, and most of them took the opportunity to cheat a little. Most advertisements from that time made promises of eternal life, super strenght and making hair grow back. Not that it worked. Now they have new ways of advertising. The strategy is: "We know something you don't! Want to learn the SECRETS that separate you from the millionaires? Uncover the simple methods that will make you WIN the world over." Don't trust any advertisements. Read reviews; read the stories from the frustrated people who beg you not to buy the product. Yup. They were allowed to advertise products with ridiculous claims, and most of them took the opportunity to cheat a little.

Most advertisements from that time made promises of eternal life, super strenght and making hair grow back.

Not that it worked.

Now they have new ways of advertising. The strategy is: “We know something you don’t! Want to learn the SECRETS that separate you from the millionaires? Uncover the simple methods that will make you WIN the world over.”

Don’t trust any advertisements. Read reviews; read the stories from the frustrated people who beg you not to buy the product.

Yup.

]]> By: Don http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-1028269 Don Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:03:14 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/#comment-1028269 Six minutes inside this egg ". . . turns you into a hard-boiled expert." Six minutes inside a cubicle turns you into mush. Six minutes inside this egg “. . . turns you into a hard-boiled expert.” Six minutes inside a cubicle turns you into mush.

]]> By: Myles http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-1028182 Myles Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:02:20 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/16/genius-hatcher/#comment-1028182 There must be more to this story. That egg looks fairly expensive to build, and a very uncomfortable place to study. Wha'ts wrong with a cubicle. There must be more to this story. That egg looks fairly expensive to build, and a very uncomfortable place to study. Wha’ts wrong with a cubicle.

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