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  • An elderly man with a prayer wheel and prayer beads at a small monastery near the Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A&W and ferris wheel at Mihama American Village on Okinawa's main island. Okinawa, Japan. The A&W fast food chain is found all around Okinawa's main island, as are soft drink advertisements. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A Ferris wheel at the port in Kobe, Japan.
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  • Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Los Angeles, CA.
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  • Cologne, West Germany. Coal strip mine. This huge machine is removing the overburden soil to get at the coal seam. The two operators sit in the compartment under the boom.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1980.
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  • Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Los Angeles, CA.
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  • Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Los Angeles, CA.
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Al-Burgan Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • A man operates a henna mill in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Los Angeles, CA.
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  • Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Los Angeles, CA.
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  • Cologne, West Germany. Coal strip mine. This huge machine is removing the overburden soil to get at the coal seam. The two operators sit in the compartment under the boom.
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  • Painters apply color to bisqueware at Morvarid (Pearl) pottery Factory, Meybod (Also spelled "Maybod"), Iran. Each of the painters applies an assigned traditional design.
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • The parade for the patron saint of the village of Malojloj on the South Island, U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands..
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  • Flying saucer golf cart at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..An art car decorated in colored lights as a flying saucer at Burning Man, the art, drugs and sex festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • One of many mobile art installations at Burning Man that became a gathering point in the late afternoon. The "Spirit of Time" or the "Tree of Time" was constructed by artist Dana Albany out of animal bones and had a constant droning sound component. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA..
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Flying saucer golf cart at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..An art car decorated in colored lights as a flying saucer at Burning Man, the art, drugs and sex festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Monterey, California
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  • A visitor spins one prayer wheel then moves to another until all four in an entry at Jambey Khakhang are spinning. The spinning cylinders are filled with prayers, which are ?said? as the wheel turns. Bumthang Valley, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Image showing the small size of the micro- accelerometer used to trip a car 'air-bag' safety device. The micro-accelerometer is seen as the small black dot in the middle of the hand. In a collision, the micro-accelerometer detects the sudden slowing down of the car. This triggers a circuit, which rapidly inflates a plastic bag with air. The air bag deploys between the driver and the steering wheel, preventing serious facial injury as the driver is thrown forward. The air- bag inflates fully in about 0.2 seconds. Micro- accelerometers are mechanical devices made by the same processes that are used in the manufacture of conventional silicon microcircuits.
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  • A grain cart driven by Illinois farmer Gordon Stine's brother Stanton, offloads corn into one of their 10-wheel trucks, which will transport it back to their silos for drying and storage. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • TV of tomorrow. Long-exposure photograph of a TV monitor being wheeled through a corridor in the MIT Media Lab. The monitor on the left shows researcher Andrew Lippmann. Set up in 1985 at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Media Lab aims to invent the multimedia technologies of the future. According to Lippmann and colleagues, tomorrow's TVs will combine computer technology with digital transmission to create an interactive system that could make conventional print and broadcast media redundant. Wall-sized 3-D screens that respond to the human voice could offer millions of TV channels, personalized news and interactive dramas.  (1995)
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  • Driving with a joystick, MIT graduate student Joseph Spano takes a spin in the ball-wheelchair he is helping to design. The chair, which uses spheres instead of wheels, automatically compensates for movement, if Spano reaches down, the chair responds by thrusting out its "wheels" to prevent him from toppling over. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 180.
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  • Lights from futuristic concept cars reflecting in the shiny column behind his head, Honda P3 chief engineer Masato Hirose has been entrusted with the transportation company's hopes of getting beyond wheels. Tokyo, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 45.
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  • Prayer wheels at the entrance of Jambey Khakhang are filled with prayers, which are said as the wheels are spun by observant Buddhist visitors.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, wheels himself down a sidewalk near his home in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain.
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  • Utterly ignoring the safety chain attached to the base of its "neck," the Honda P3 confidently walks down a flight of steps in the company lab. More than a decade ago, at the beginning of the Honda project, the research team concluded that their robot would have to be able to walk, rather than simply roll on wheels. Wheeled robots, they decided, just couldn't function in a contemporary home full of stairs, toy-strewn floors, thick pile rugs, and other obstacles. Today P3 can walk with impressive smoothness. The only real sign of its robotic nature is the way it begins to walk with a little knee-dip, to compensate for the absence of a pelvis. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 44.
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  • In an oddly ghoulish bit of dental R&D, Waseda University engineers have built a "jaw-robot" from a skull, some electronic circuitry, and an assembly of pulleys, wheels, and cables that act like muscle. Sensors measure the biting action of the jaw and the force of the chewing. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 173.
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  • Street vendor sells hard seeded biscuits from a wheeled cart on the street in Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Fearsome sawblades spinning, Pretty Hate Machine menaces the competition at Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. Organized by Marc Thorpe, a former Industrial Light and Magic model builder, the cybernetic slugfest spawned a six-week BBC-TV series and many similar events. Pretty Hate Machine is a middleweight-class machine; two wheelchair motors power a Rube Goldberg assembly of rods, rubber belts and saw blades. A real crowd-pleaser, Pretty Hate Machine was one of the few walking robots in a competition dominated by wheeled or tracked machines. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 200-201.
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