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Afternoon all, It’s not the most wonderful time of the year. As people drift grimly back to work, only the memories of the festivities of Christmas and New Year remain. Those and countless millions of photos of the kids opening presents, grannies sipping dry sherries and raucous games of charades. Where did this obsession with documenting our every activity come from? As Stephen Dowling finds out, we owe it all to the Kodak Brownie which, when released in 1900, reduced the cost of owning a camera from $25 to just $1. But not all the pictures were fun. Brownies were used to capture the Titanic rescue mission and the horrors of the Western Front. The camera, little more than a cardboard box, changed the world, or at least the way we see it. The most important cardboard box ever? | |
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There’s a problem with artificial limbs. They can look so, well, artificial. So designer Sophie de Oliveira Barata decided to make replacement arms and legs look a bit more like the real things, offering amputees a variety of skin tones and colours. For the more adventurous, the products can also be altered to reflect owners’ personalities. Diamonds, crystals, rhinestones, dragon prints - anything goes. Prosthetics 'that speak from the soul'
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Officers in the UK’s armed forces have been getting ticked off for not saluting enough. They blame the increase in joint operations by the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. With so many ranks and so much insignia to remember, they’re getting confused. When is it time to salute and not? The Ministry of Defence has produced a simple chart to help officers tell the top brass from the rest. Which raises another question - why do we need salutes in the first place? Where did the salute come from?
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