just woke up from a dream in which somebody was showing me a pair of ‘x-ray glasses’ that they had built in the 1970s based on designs from a ‘build your own x-ray glasses’ magazine article. the device featured a high-voltage X-ray tube millimetres from your eye, and had to be plugged into a mains outlet at all times with a long cable. they suggested building a wooden box to carry the heavy transformer around your waist, as well as several sheets of large-format photographic film

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@jk I love how realistically implemented the initially absurd dream premise is

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