About this product: Celebrating imagination and invention brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS: TECHNOLOGY illuminates the fascinating stories of the doers and dreamers who created everyday items, pioneered technological breakthroughs, and produced the most renowned man-made wonders. MODERN MARVELS goes beyond the nuts and bolts and into the hearts of these innovations and the minds of the geniuses behind them. From the history of the sugar industry to the longest bridge in the world to the world’s first atom bomb, the series elucidates the ingenuity that gave way to the revelatory inventions and engineering feats that are a part of modern-day life.
About this product: This Documentary explains the steps that were taken to get where we are today with computers. It takes you back to the very beginnings and explains what might be ahead as computers get smaller and faster. An amazing film which anyone who is interested should buy.
About this product: The History Channel's MODERN MARVELS takes on the world of high technology wartime aircraft in STEALTH TECHNOLOGY. Get history background and behind-the-scenes footage on construction and usage in this education program that is sure to fascinate plane and technology buffs.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 733961760675 Manufacturer No: AAE-76067
About this product: Retrace the steps of the wright brothers historic quest to free humankind from the bounds of gravity. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 04/26/2005
About this product: The experts at Popular Mechanics, the world’s largest science and technology magazine, provide an in-depth look at 21st century warfare. From sophisticated network information systems and remote-controlled robot warriors to smart munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles, this five-part series investigates amazing advances that are revolutionizing the new technology of war. Packed with sophisticated CG animation, weapons testing footage and more – episodes include: Ground Forces, Air Power, Sea Power, Counter-Terrorism and The Future of War.
About this product: Technologies of the Gods brings convincing evidence that ancient civilizations utilized high-tech engineering methods equal to, if not superior to our own and that these technologies were being applied on a world-wide level.
It has long been suspected that the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Mayan temples could not have been built using the primitive technologies attributed to those peoples by the orthodox academic view which states that primitive civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt and India emerged from the stone age just over five thousand years ago.
In Technologies of the Gods breakthrough researches, writers and engineers take a look at real evidence largely ignored by the academic establishment which shatters the orthodox scenario for the dawn of civilization on Earth.
About this product: The U.S. agricultural process, from seed to shelf, is so efficient that most people don't think much about it. But food growing and processing is ever more sophisticated, employing computer-guided, ground-shaking machinery, and sometimes controversial techniques. It's an industry of declining family farms, diminishing returns, yet higher yields. We review the evolution of the tools used to produce food, show the steps in the cycle that brings food to the table, and look at the future of farming.
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About this product: Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRESS TECHNOLOGY FROM THE ORIGINAL HAND-DRIVEN PRESS TO THE PRESENT WORLD OF COMPUTERIZED STORY BANKS, MEMORY DISCS, VIDEO TERMINALS, AND COMPUTER/PHOTO PRINTING TECHNIQUES, ADVANCES WHICH HAVE BROUGHT THE COST OF NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION DOWN TO ONE-FIFTH OF WHAT IT WAS 25 YEARS AGO.
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About this product: Behind a storefront in Los Angeles is one of the most unusual cultural institutions in America - The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Its a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, filled with juxtapositions of the genuine, the strange, and the truly unexplainable. Inhaling the Spore is an intimate journey through the MJT, and features its founder and director David Wilson, who can often be found in front of the museum, playing his accordion to attract visitors. Entering the museum, the camera winds through a dark warren of spaces. Behind glass are various exhibits presented with the normal trappings of a museum - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, and scholarly audio programs. With Wilson as our guide, we see: Micro-miniature sculptures of Napoleon and the Pope, each carved from a human hair, and mounted in the eye of a needle. An elaborate exhibit about the bat Myotis lucifugus, or ""piercing devil"" which is believed to fly through solid objects. Yes, there is something very odd going on here, questioning our usual assumptions of what is realor not. We turn to some outside experts for analysis: Author Lawrence Weschler relates his experiences trying to verify some of the MJTs exhibits; the J. Paul Getty Museum's John Walsh compares it to the first museums of the 17th century; art historian Barbara Stafford observes that Wilsons exhibits invite us to see the hidden associations between objects; and actor/magician Ricky Jay discusses his on-loan collection of desiccating dice. Museum director David Wilson views one particular exhibit as a metaphor for the entire enterprise. The African Stink Ant inhales the spore of a parasitic fungus that causes it to behave in curious and irrational ways. Eventually the fungus grows, horn-like, from the ants head, and rains down new spores to the forest floor. All of us here at the museum feel like we've inhaled that spore, says Wilson, and hopefully we'll infect other people as well. Inhaling the Spore explores and celebrates the Museum of Jurassic Technology. A place that inspires us to wonder at the marvels of man and nature... and wonder whether any of it could possibly be true.
About this product: A provocative science fiction drama, District 9 boasts an original story that gets a little lost in blow-'em-up mayhem. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock documentary about the imminent eviction of extraterrestrials from a pathetic shantytown (called District 9). The creatures, it turns out, have been on Earth for years, having arrived sickly and starving. Initially received by humans with compassion and care, the aliens are now mired in blighted conditions typical of long-term refugee camps unwanted by a hostile, host society. With the creatures' care contracted out to a for-profit corporation, the shantytown has become a violent slum. The aliens sift through massive piles of junk while their minders secretly research weapons technology that arrived on the visitors' spacecraft.
Against this backdrop is a more personal story about a bureaucrat named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is accidentally exposed to a DNA-altering substance. As he begins metamorphosing into one of the creatures, Wikus goes on the run from scientists who want to harvest his evolving, new parts and aliens who see him as a threat. When he pairs up with an extraterrestrial secretly planning an escape from Earth, however, what should be a fascinating relationship story becomes a series of firefights and explosions. Nuance is lost to numbing violence, and the more interesting potential of the film is obscured. Yet, for a while District 9 is a powerful movie with a unique tale to tell. Seamless special effects alone are worth seeing: the (often brutal) exchanges between alien and human are breathtaking. --Tom Keogh
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