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X-Rays of Toys

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60 pointsSanderMak20 comments

If you like this, you should check out this Flickr account with x-rays of videogame consoles and controllers: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/ravanderende/sets/721575943....

The batteries in this image appear as if they have been "drained" a bit:

https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/124270165/hd/b17c3e...

In all of the other pictures the batteries are completely opaque. Is this actually indicative of how much charge is left? And is this also how those Duracell pinch indicators work?

The pinch indicators are just Liquid crystal thermometers and a heating element.

These would make amazing wall art, sign me up.

There is actually a buy this button below each picture, which allows you to order prints of various sizes.

Yeah those buttons need to be a lot bigger. I also hadn't noticed until you pointed it out, other poster wrote "these would make amazing wall art"

I saw the buy now button but thought it was to buy the toy :s

The screws make it easy to see where pieces join together, along parting lines or edges.

I'd love to see shots like this on my site: https://www.takeitapart.com

He should provide links to purchase each print with its corresponding toy. The print would be a cool thing to hang in a kid's room (or even a big kid), but it would be way cooler if the kid also had the corresponding toy.

Why are they colored? Genuinely interested - not an x-ray expert by any means.

Post processing to make them more interesting I reckon

"Brendan Fitzpatrick is a photographer for over twenty years and for the past seven years he has been living and working in Singapore. He uses x-ray machines at a local radiology lab followed by a few rounds of image editing and color correction in Photoshop to create unique skeletal images of flowers."

How does he do it? (How does one get access to an X-Ray machine?)

What's that, a gun with a helicopter on top?

I've seen something like this in toy stores - that's more or less what it is, but instead of firing some kind of toy bullet, the trigger actually spins up the helicopter propeller via the motor just underneath it. I then assume the helicopter detaches and flies off once the prop reaches a high enough RPM to do so.

The helicopter is cast into the body of the gun and has wires running into it. Looking at the wiring, there should be lights in the propeller but they're not being shown. So the propeller most likely just spins and makes trippy light patterns.

It looks like there were some liberties taken with the editing to clean up the picture. There's a spring for the trigger return, which appears to double as a switch, but the trigger itself is missing. It looks like there should be a rotating cylinder on the barrel, as well.

I didn't realize toy guns of any shape or form were being sold these days; I guess all the rhetoric in the media is just that after all.

Interesting http://www.invisiblelight.com.au/

I'm surprised they still use glass incandescent bulbs instead of LEDs. Perhaps it's cheaper?

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