The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!

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I think we really oughta make this fashionable again, don't you?
Links and stuff down below!
First, the patents!
Aladdin's Fantastical Lamp;
patents.google.com/patent/US2...
Scott M Kunen's not-original patent;
patents.google.com/patent/US4...
Sylvania's Pushless Pushbutton;
patents.google.com/patent/US2...
And in case you want to peruse the datasheet of the modern chip, here's one place to do it;
www.digchip.com/datasheets/pa...
Here are the other links I usually put here;
Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):
/ @technologyconnextras
Technology Connections on Twitter:
/ techconnectify
The TC Subreddit
/ technologyconnections
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Комментарии : 6 тыс.

@TechnologyConnections 3 года назад

Hey there! I did a quick follow-up video on Connextras to look at the power draw of the modern module. Mishaps occurred! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FuSsFdzF8tE.html

@campingmods496 3 года назад

We won't call it a mishap. We'll call it a happy learning opportunity.

@psistis80 3 года назад

Next time,please explain how the clapper worked.

@niagarawarrior9623 3 года назад

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for being so great at creating comprehensible, educational, and overall well written and presented youtube channel. You have easily become one of my favorite content creators on RU-vid., keep up the great work! Also, dry humor is my favorite, keep that up too!

@Rabcup 3 года назад

Dude throwing shade at Apple from the start. If they made a Mac with a touchscreen they wouldn’t have a market for the iPad, duh Oh but you came back around for Google okay all is fair

@YusufGinnah 3 года назад

The Matrix: "Humans are batteries..." Technology Connections: "Humans are capacitors..."

@Kevdama1 3 года назад

Fun fact: Google has now corrected this error and now gives the correct answer of 1954 when searching "When was the touch lamp invented?"

@antontaylor4530 3 года назад

As of today, it says "the 1950's"...

@apenasmedeixausar 3 года назад

Funny, for me, it still says 1984 just like in the video. Additionally, the second link in the search is about a person complaining that Google's answer is wrong.

@antontaylor4530 3 года назад

@@apenasmedeixausar I can confirm that Google is now saying 1984 again. Gotta love AI search engines.

@cybercat1531 3 года назад

To me it just gives no answer except various links. Because it seems to know that I don't trust it.

@Kesh789 3 года назад

@@antontaylor4530 Ha it gave up. It doesn't give any answer anymore, just gives the wikipedia page on them.

@kepstin 3 года назад

"I'm not one to toot my own horn" says a guy with a seven and a half minute video consisting of himself tooting several of his own horns :)

@guspolly 3 года назад

Ah-oooo-gah

@dustinjames1268 3 года назад

Doot doot

@d1rcwill 3 года назад

@@guspolly That's a klaxon dammit

@SD-de4do 3 года назад

I watched that entire video, laughing my ass off all along the way. The absurdity of it all was delicious.

@ShukenFlash 3 года назад

I almost feel bad for liking this because it was at 666 likes and that made me giggle (childish, I know) but this was just too perfect a reply to that line.

@haywardhaunter2620 5 месяцев назад

Touch lamps were not only for human convenience, but also for pets. My mother-in-law had a couple cats who learned that repeatedly tapping the bedside lamp could activate the bipedal food delivery unit.

@nachosNipples 2 месяца назад

that's annoying but cute

@SheepThinkk 2 года назад

“And that means you’re useful.” *puts this on my resume*

@Urbanstrangler 3 года назад

"Capacitater" *DEEP INHALE*

@sferg9582 3 года назад

A "true groaner" for sure. LOL!

@abigailmcdowell4248 3 года назад

I laughed the loudest i have in a while because of that joke

@dysomniak 3 года назад

What did you expect from a you TUBER?

@KevinDay 3 года назад

It took me about 5 seconds to get that and then I had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard 😂

@DumahBrazorf 3 года назад

"Capacitato", i think. I admire how he managed to remain serious. EDIT: Ok, i saw the bloopers...

@nate8088 3 года назад

"beige, new age raves, and Nicolas Cage's coming of age" - that.... was amazing.

@BurcoGames 3 года назад

I wonder how many takes it took him to get the line correct 😂

@rednammoc 3 года назад

Wordy rampage earns this sage his wage!

@nate_d376 3 года назад

Well, I don't remember them being called raves, until the 90s though.

@_anan_onel_ 3 года назад

The only rapper Eminem was afraid to diss

@Zorlin0 3 года назад

Reminds me of Princess Caroline from Bojack Horseman and her frequent wordplay...

@ragerequiem6323 11 месяцев назад

I used to use a plasma ball lamp to "touch" a touch lamp from nearly a room away. It was one of the coolest things to discover as an inquisitive teen.

@feiaur 5 месяцев назад

How does that work?

@phtown 5 месяцев назад

@@feiaur I had to stop using my touch lamp because turning on a different lamp on the same circuit would sometimes make it trigger. I guess there's some transient in the power line that screws up the capacitance measurement somehow. I would guess the power supply in the plasma ball was feeding some noise back into the outlet and touching it changed that behavior in a way that affected the touch lamp. Sorry I can't do better than speculate here.

@JohnnyApplesauce1 5 месяцев назад

Clearly that inquisitive behavior never left ❤❤❤

@timothylangin4095 3 месяца назад

@@phtown I was about to point this out though when I played with my plasma lamp I would activate every single touch lamp in the house my mom use to get so irritated with me since all she bought were touch lamps.

@spyguy318 2 года назад

Fun fact! Capacitive Sensing was developed in the 1920s by Leon Theremin, who was working on developing proximity sensors. He then used it to create the Theremin instrument, which uses capacitive sensing to control the pitch of a note based on the position of the performer’s hands to an antennae.

@user-lv7ph7hs7l Год назад

Damn, the Theremin is that old? And yeah it is kinda magical you don't even touch it. Always wanted one, they are very cheap these days.

@rukirgaming Год назад

So a precursor to the Otamatone..?

@greenaum Год назад

.... sort of. I think it used RF interference as much as anything, particularly generating the pitch. Not the same as capacitive sensing. Though still amazing of course. His real name was Lev Termen, he latinised it when he moved to the USA to sound less Soviet / Jewish.

@AdvancedGemini Год назад

He also created a completely passive listening device for the Soviet Union so they could spy on conversations in the US embassy in Moscow.

@patrickmartin3322 Год назад

@@rukirgaming no, not really, you actually have to touch an Otomatone to play it

@LMacNeill 3 года назад

I can't speak for everyone, but in my house, these lamps disappeared shortly after we bought them (back in the '80s) because the cats absolutely *loved* turning them on at 3AM, waking everyone up. ;-)

@ShinoPuppy 3 года назад

This. They quickly vanished from my parents' bedroom as a kid shortly after we adopted a cat that just absolutely had to rub up against anything remotely stationary when around hoomans. We'd know she was in a room harassing someone just from the disco-strobe effects that would be visible from the hallway.

@AllonKirtchik 3 года назад

Cat-acitators

@sweeflyboy 3 года назад

HAHAHA gave me a much needed laugh

@prairiepanda 3 года назад

My roommate had one up until my cat learned how it worked.

@PANDORAZTOYBOKZ 3 года назад

Not quite the same, but this is what made us get new Xbox One's. The cats constantly activated (and worse, DEACTIVATED) our original VCR XBone when they'd brush against the touch sensor. Upgrading to the One S with the physical button was such a godsend.

@thomasr1051 3 года назад

It's weird how touching a lamp anywhere to turn it on is more magical to me than a smartphone.

@GwyndolinOwO 2 года назад

I think thats a pretty normal feeling. Humans are pretty much made to adjust to things, so when you're around something or hear about something all the time it starts to feel very "average" and i think that's a huge reason why as a human-race we have this huge fascination with the past and the future. Its something new to experience (even if its already happened before, or hasn't happened yet)

@bhull242 Год назад

In addition to what Brotien said, I think it’s also partly the fact that we’re used to touch controls having a certain “look”, either in the form of a screen or in a touchpad, so the touch-sensitivity is localized, so to speak. Being able to touch almost _any_ part of the lamp-which, on its face, appears no different from any other lamp aside from the lack of a visible switch-is unlike what we’re used to from existing touch controls. There’s also the historical context to consider. We think of touch controls being fairly recent (starting around the mid-2000s, give or take), and where they were used, most touch sensors used a resistive touch screen or pad until even more recently (when we started getting iPhones and such, which use capacitance), and those have an even more distinctive appearance and “feel” to them. The idea that devices with working capacitive touch sensors were available commercially as long ago as the 80s (and, technically, had existed since the 50s) makes them seem anachronistic. This is made even more apparent from the appearance of the lamps themselves, which very much appear like antiques (which they basically are), and having that sort of technology in something so old seems bizarre to us. Though, for me, it feels less like that, but that’s only because I grew up in the 90s (not that long after the time these were popular) and often spent time with a grandmother who actually still used one of these lamps. I still have it, actually. As such, I was exposed to a touch lamp when I was a kid and long before touchscreens and touchpads became commercially viable, so it doesn’t feel anachronistic or unusual to me. I hadn’t even thought of how surprising it would be to most people until a year or so ago because, to me, it was just normal.

@jooshozzono7249 Год назад

Yeah ,it's weird

@willisverynice Год назад

Don’t you touch your smartphone to turn it on?

@LonelySpaceDetective Год назад

I think there's also a factor of "doing more with less" (for lack of a more concise+accurate way to put it) to account for, here. Like for instance, objectively speaking an OLED television is much more advanced technically than a CRT overall and it took us a long while for the technology to get there for making OLED TVs possible, but I imagine a significant portion of the viewership for a channel like this finds modern televisions downright _boring_ and CRTs much more interesting to examine and research how they work. I know I've seen a similar sentiment expressed by a friend or a few on the subject of vinyl records versus CDs and later media for music, and by a RU-vidr I watch who expressed that an older computer hooked up to a modern 4K display just isn't very interesting unless the video output was somehow flawed by the process. To try to summarize, as much as you or I may respect how much advancement goes into modern technology, the mechanical and electric engineering that went into older technologies like video tape or this here touch lamp just tend to be more interesting to talk about than "a computer does it" of equivalent modern tech.

@macsenplays 2 года назад

We need a video of all the times Alec says "Well, through the magic of buying two of them..."

@shawnmulberry774 2 года назад

Gustavo Almadovar

@the_undead 2 года назад

It would probably be like an hour long ordeal

@fridaycaliforniaa236 Год назад

@@shawnmulberry774 Omg, I love this ref 😂

@cuboembaralhado8294 Год назад

Sometimes he says "by the magic of buying three of them" or "buying four"

@official-obama Год назад

what about you align them all up like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-36IV-FoFLlg.html

@ajc5869 Год назад

When you first uploaded this it was the first time I saw those DIY touch modules. They were the absolute perfect thing for my grandma, her arthritis is getting pretty bad so I installed these in 5 lamps around her house and she absolutely loves them! No more fumbling with the pull chains or switches. It’s also ideal for a couple lamps she has on a tall table, she’s quite short and can’t lift her arm up to the switches. Now all she does is touch the base of the lamps, it was such an awesome solution!

@MCAlexisYT Год назад

🚀👍

@sergiomendez9231 10 месяцев назад

How fantastic! What an excellent application for those! I too, had never seen the DIY modules!

@adriancrow9952 10 месяцев назад

How many watts do they use on standby? If the old lamp was 0.5 W if I remember from the video. Is the newer tech better?

@ajc5869 11 дней назад

@@adriancrow9952 Never tested, but I would assume it’s pretty negligible. For my grandmother at least, whatever it is it’s worth the extra.

@jasonpaulwhiting 3 года назад

"They were all the rage in the age of beige, new age raves, and Nicholas Cage's coming of age." is the best line I've ever heard in a RU-vid video.

@tharii314 3 года назад

What about the TanTalizing TerriTorry of Toaster Technology?

@Brodolf_Gainzdeer 2 года назад

Capaci-tator

@epiendless1128 3 года назад

A policeman once told me I would never amount to anything. I said, "at least I'm a capacitor", and he charged me.

@sirarandor 3 года назад

Did you resist?

@arcadecarpet631 3 года назад

@@sirarandor i cant tell if you didnt get the joke

@sirarandor 3 года назад

@@arcadecarpet631 Of course I would have the capacitance to understand such a shockingly good pun, if I didn't get such comments I would remain at ohm.

@pablorepetto2759 3 года назад

I presume your lawyer dad grounded you as he cleared you of all charges

@TacComControl 3 года назад

@@pablorepetto2759 Yeah, but then he had to talk to a doctor about an embarrassing discharge...

@DansplainingVideo 2 года назад

All the hours I've spent watching your videos were rewarded by learning in this video about the capaci-tater. Pure gold.

@commandermagpie 3 месяца назад

I am coming to appreciate much more my mom’s collection of family heirlooms, which includes touch lamps like these, kerosine lamps with a chimney (and an old whale oil lamp, but that’s beside the point) and bubble lights from the 1970’s, which we always had on the tree when I was growing up. Thanks for making these videos!

@bigclivedotcom 3 года назад

Otis elevators had touch sensitive call buttons that relied on capacitive coupling through humans to ground to trigger a neon filled tube that acted as sensor, latch, switch and indicator.. Way ahead of its time, and quite complex as a result.

@wich1 3 года назад

That’s actually quite elegant

@alexandranicholas6310 3 года назад

Cool to see you over here!

@agenericaccount3935 3 года назад

The more you know!

@KarlBunker 3 года назад

Since people didn't know about gloves and capacitive touch screens in those days, I imagine people would come in with gloves on and decide that the elevator must be broken after angrily jabbing at the button a few dozen times.

@lasseigne11 3 года назад

i came here when i heard the name drop at 5:09

@camillecirrus3977 3 года назад

_"Bright!"_ _"BRIGHTER!"_ *_"BRIGHTEST!!!"_* _"Off."_

@hydroxan1508 3 года назад

Exactly.

@skylined5534 3 года назад

Just like me at the start and end of high school.

@rustyshackleford5166 3 года назад

On On-er On-est Off-est Lol

@aaxxsed 3 года назад

On't

@slinky6481 2 года назад

I was reading this comment EXACTLY when he said that in the credits lol

@ryandraskinis2411 2 года назад

Had 2 of these as a kid. My sister and friends would always mess with it. Like u touch and hold it and it comes on then someone else touches your skin and it changes again. Remember making “human chains” across the house to see how far away we could get and still cycle the modes. Ahh being a kid in the 80’s was fun.

@TexusNoe365247 3 года назад

I love the use of alliteration and poetry in this episode. This was really fun to watch.

@johnrinehart 3 года назад

"After all, they were all the rage in the age of beige, new age raves, and Nicholas' Cage's coming of age." Wow. I love it.

@fozian9591 Год назад

man got bars

@InservioLetum Год назад

**snif** I miss the 90s.....

@mikebailey783 3 года назад

Capaci-tater. That's it, TechnoConn; you've won RU-vid for today.

@tom4ivo 3 года назад

Agreed. One of the best puns ever.

@Lyrandar 3 года назад

the best

@nikolateslax1 3 года назад

@@tom4ivo If you don't love it, your money back, you Capaci-hater!

@davidwostrel 3 года назад

I laughed so hard.... like 10 seconds later

@AMalas 3 года назад

@@davidwostrel surely you mean 10 seconds tater!

@matthewgumabon7498 6 месяцев назад

My childhood home in New Jersey USA had a “touch button” that triggered the overhead “chandelier” light in my dining room. The house was built in the 1960s but the system must have been wired up in the 80s. It was just a plastic framed metallic brass pad mounted in the wall where a normal light switch would be. But it had no moving parts, and no buttons. You just touched it lightly and the ceiling lamp instantly turned on. Blew my mind as a kid.

@Ninja1Zombie1Master Год назад

I have a capacitive touch faucet. Its less of a gimmick than it sounds, since you can easily turn it on/off with a bump of the wrist. This means it stays cleaner because you don't need to touch the lever/knobs with your wet or potentially dirty hands. It'll also automatically turn off after a few minutes. Honestly pretty neat and convenient.

@lewisfilby2394 3 года назад

this video is actually a subtle tutorial on how to use Google effectively

@mialemon6186 3 года назад

Maybe we can get into search modifiers next! Quote marks, plus signs, minus signs, site:example, etc.

@anthonygarcia5375 3 года назад

Yes I recommend not being dumb and ignoring the answer Google gives you

@pedrolmlkzk 3 года назад

The best way to use Google is by not doing it

@_Not_Retarded 2 года назад

Most effective use of google is not using them as they'll alter your access to information because of politics. Revoke any digital privileges you gave them, and use duckduckgo. Block them out as much as you can.

@deepdive1338 2 года назад

@@_Not_Retarded no, that's you not understanding how browsers work. Learn google dorks, and you can use it as an actual internet browser

@FilmmakerIQ 3 года назад

Your use of puns is masterful. Well done!

@mmseng2 3 года назад

And also amazing alliteration!

@matthewm3 3 года назад

I like your channel, you just got a sub

@concinnity9676 3 года назад

@mmseng2 I agree, I also appreciate that figure of speech. However, it could lead to absolutely astounding amounts of annoying alliteration

@twothreebravo 3 года назад

I always like it when my favorite youtubers just randomly show up in each others comments sections.

@OcRefrigeration 3 года назад

I Was in the Dark about How these lamps worked But , alas no more !

@LOLZpersonok Год назад

I remember being in elementary school and bragging to all of my friends that "I have a touch lamp!", and they'd all be sitting there like "ooh, ahh!". This was in the mid-2000s. Somehow, we were still mind-blown that this was a thing at the time.

@tylersmallman 10 месяцев назад

I enjoyed his consistency in saying “bright, Brighter, BRIGHTEST, off”

@Veriflon88 3 года назад

"Let me state that I am no Big Clive" is probably more of a crossover than I would ever hoped for

@MrRancidity 3 года назад

He's even here in the comments. What a time to be alive

@jekanyika 3 года назад

@@MrRancidity beat me to it.

@n82good 3 года назад

Awesome shoutout to Clive!

@keithyinger3326 3 года назад

I was going to say, Send one of these over to Big Clive, he'll tell us exactly how the whole capacitive coupling thing works.

@phils4634 3 года назад

I think a large number of the BC Fan Club are here, mate! That first controller (with the 18 pin socketed DIL chip) is so very "legacy" it's amazing - and I'll bet it is electrically as noisy as hell! The more modern iteration (8 pin DIL) seems a far better design, with decent isolation slots in the board, and a nice pair of Class x caps. For those that are interested - TT6061a datasheet - datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/301704/TontekDesignTechnology/TT6061A/1, and for the (VERY common) BT136 Triac - www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download.php?id=fc296f1315bfda8bd660e6d4bcfa941be803ae&type=P&term=Triac%2520bt136%2520600d.

@Dudeosaurus 3 года назад

Thousands of years ago, my siblings had one of these lamps each. I, on the otherhand, had a cheap switch-operated lamp, because our parents loved me the least. The only consolation was that whenever I switched my lamp on, my siblings' lamps would be triggered, which would cause them to complain endlessly, which warmed my dead heart. Fast forward to my sister's fourteenth birthday. She had invited a couple dozen of her friends to a slumber party. After a whole day of running around, giggling, talking about teenage girl stuff and general mucking about, she gathered all her friends in her room for a seance. She had a costume somewhere between a gypsy fortune teller and Miss Cleo. She'd also done some research, to make the experience as authentic as possible. They all sat in a circle, hands held, around a bunch of candles, as she started her mystical chants. As she went through her speech, her voice got louder and more intense, until she was almost shouting by the end of it, chanting something along the lines of "Spirits, we call upon you, we beseech you. Spirits, if you can hear us, give us a sign!". Upon hearing the signal, I rapidly flicked my lamp on and off several times. The result was an ear-splitting scream, followed by what sounded like an avalanche of elephants, as a roomful of teenage girls trampled over each other to escape.

@Squirl7504 3 года назад

Was your sister in on it?

@xmlthegreat 3 года назад

That... Was beautiful!

@WWStu 3 года назад

Excellent!

@samuelthecamel 3 года назад

Teenage girls are always doing some weird stuff (while the guys are almost killing themselves)

@kevinsullivan3448 3 года назад

@@samuelthecamel You said it. Girls in High School: "Let's do make-overs and talk about boys." Me in high school: "Let's hook a tow chain to this old car hood and surf on it while it is being dragged behind a jeep in this sand wash!" Oh 70s, how I miss you.

@hydrochloricacid2146 3 года назад

I have on of these as a bedside lamp. I always thought that they'd be little more than gimmicks, but the touch sensing is actually very useful, and something I'll definitely look for in any future small lamps I get. Not having to frantically search for a switch in the middle of the night is great.

@rbpalmer1 Год назад

I had forgotten all about this -- Thank you for the "reminder"!! In my high school dormitory "a little while ago" (in 1963), the school policy was to attempt to separate students from the habit of constant radio music, so the rule was that no radios were allowed to be played for the first six weeks of the school year. My dorm neighbor brought in a capacitance switch. He ran a fine wire to his door knob, so if anyone touched that knob, his radio would cut off. Several times our dorm parent would hear music from "somewhere" and would burst into the room, but was never able to catch him playing the radio. Fun stuff....

@DeviantOllam 3 года назад

Can't. Handle. So. Many. Quips. 🤣 between an oblique Simpsons reference, a "these answers and more" trope, a Big Band jingle leading into a reference to a city that goes to 11, and a potato pun... all packaged into a delightful debunking and enginerding explanation, this was exactly what i needed this morning!

@haku8645 3 года назад

Oh no, I somehow missed the Simpsons reference. What was it?

@DeviantOllam 3 года назад

@@haku8645 clearly you're not a fan of Thrillhouse 😂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GPN_X8O2jlk.html

@haku8645 3 года назад

@@DeviantOllam Oh man, now I have to become that guy who goes "I haven't really seen much of anything past season 12"

@TheNerd484 3 года назад

I hope you also caught the How it's made reference in the beginning of the video

@Farmboy1927 3 года назад

Can we get a crossover episode?

@UselessDuckCompany 3 года назад

It was fun seeing you on Tom Scott's trivia show

@satosiwu148 3 года назад

wait what?

@0ging0 3 года назад

I've got to see that. Link please.

@TechnologyConnections 3 года назад

@Sebastian Elytron not nearly as embarrassing as that comment...

@745morning 3 года назад

Sebastian Elytron said "lost to two women , how embarrassing..." incase he deletes his comment

@ASilentS 3 года назад

@@TechnologyConnections ZING!

@thetimetravellingtailor6323 5 месяцев назад

I love these lamps. I have disabilities and a tremor in my body so honestly some lamps can be really hard to switch so apart from these lamps being plain cool - it's also really practical for someone like me to just touch the lamp with the back of a hand.

@Wrugoin13 2 года назад

"Dispozo is quite the interesting clown" :) That gave me quite the belly laugh. Thank you for the endorphins.

@marley7145 3 года назад

"...you are actually a capacitor; you are useful." I'm not sure, but at this point in 2020 I may actually be a capacitator.

@nmanbamboo1980 3 года назад

AI of now ... "Ah humans as capacitors as power source, let us do some R n D on this" ........... FFwd Future .... The Matrix.

@MediocreHexPeddler 3 года назад

That's capaci-TATER to you

@marley7145 3 года назад

@@MediocreHexPeddler I slump corrected.

@boots3372 3 года назад

@@marley7145 two wing dingers, love it

@positronundervolt4799 3 года назад

Maybe you need to do some more touching and dump your whole charge.

@Huvada 3 года назад

5:05 “And that means, you’re useful.” Me: cries in happiness.

@NicolaiSyvertsen 3 года назад

Nothing to brighten your day than knowing your value in pF

@paulsengupta971 3 года назад

In three brightness steps.

@Aragubas 3 года назад

wanna work for me?

@profosist Год назад

The capacitater joke got me (because I call them that).

@DangerStepp 3 дня назад

This guy is great! Clear and concise information is a rare commodity nowadays. Thank you!

@woodlandwonders6887 3 года назад

"Don't take everything on the internet as gospel". That's exactly what Elvis Presley told me when I saw him at Walmart last week.

@michaelwarren2391 3 года назад

Bonjour. I'm a french model. LOL. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-34CHqptjj9E.html

@Hopeofmen 3 года назад

Was this in the eleventh Nashville?

@xmlthegreat 3 года назад

Obviously fake, no one shops at Walmart

@user2C47 3 года назад

@@xmlthegreat Obviously fake, Walmart is bigger than the biggest oil company.

@xmlthegreat 3 года назад

@@user2C47 Learn to read the room buddy. It's called a joke.

@JohnWilkinsonTesla 3 года назад

"...then you've made a capacitater!" *stifles laughter* audience: *groans*

@scratchmyback1 3 года назад

4:47 "capacitater" needs to be used way more in this video!

@arjovenzia 3 года назад

I thought it was brilliant. Made me chuckle on the train.

@georgf9279 3 года назад

@@arjovenzia Help me, I don't get it. Capacitato would make sense, but capacitater?!

@10brokenradios 3 года назад

@@georgf9279 potatoes are called "taters" too.

@PaulHawxby 3 года назад

What a stupid joke, love it

@jadyn5062 10 месяцев назад

i remember being fascinated by my grandparents touch lamps when i was a kid

@bobosims1848 Год назад

"... prevents your fingers from furiously fighting fictitious fantasy foes." EXCELLENT alliteration!

@KurosakiYukigo 3 года назад

Good Lord, the number of gags per minute in the first minute is astounding.

@Varksterable 3 года назад

The number of gags per minute in the first minute is also very nearly the number of gags. How on earth did he pull that little trick off?!?

@Sovic91 3 года назад

From now on it shall be known as the golden minute. Comedy gold, that is.

@McHeisenburger 3 года назад

The subtle comedy on this channel is second to none. I love it.

@minacapella8319 2 года назад

It's the soul of the channel. We get to learn about all sorts of Era of tech with just a pinch of snark and dry humor. Infotainment at perfect balance.

@andyfpt 2 года назад

@@minacapella8319 his delivery and mannerisms remind me of Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes :)

@riley9464 Год назад

my aunt had a, presumably, defective touch lamp that when you touched it it would cycle through all the settings twice before landing on a random one. it was kind of fun to mess with but i was always curious what kind of defect could have possible caused that

@generalcodsworth4417 Год назад

It's possible that a wire was frayed, some gunk got in a connection, or (if it was never moved) something may have been touching it which confused the sensor when it had just been activated. A loose wire connecting the metal to the circuitry is probably the most likely cause. Perhaps it could be fixed by simply opening it up and tightening everything down.

@gabrielv.4358 Год назад

awesome

@Majima_Nowhere Год назад

@@generalcodsworth4417 I'd bet money that's what it was. Touching the lamp causes _something_ to vibrate, itself causing the lamp to activate multiple times, then when the vibration stops it keeps that state.

@frankiev116 2 года назад

Absolutely love the blooper segment. I love seeing you go to rewind the teleprompter because I help people make videos all the time and I know what that’s like 😂😂. The writing is just too good as well. Excellent work

@8bitwarrior 3 года назад

“Capaci-tater” that was genius.

@Dept_Of_Ducks 3 года назад

I blinked so hard at that pun it hurt.

@bigteo90 3 года назад

I had to go back cause I wasn't sure if he actually said that or not

@MyPupTobi 3 года назад

I had to put my phone down. Currently paused on the moment.

@JamieShultz 3 года назад

Wasn't ready for "Capaci-tator", nearly spit out my drink...

@tanya5322 3 года назад

Same here. Except I was listening while driving. Yes. Just listening. No looking.

@ZeroArcana 3 года назад

I literally shouted "goddammit!"

@zlcoolboy 3 года назад

Yeah he got us again Haha

@reyariass 3 года назад

Same! Well, luckily I had swallowed my sip of coffee right before he said it

@Harey0407 3 года назад

I was thinking, wouldn't it be a Capaci-tato though?

@echologixxx9758 3 месяца назад

I'm years late discovering this channel, but I both really appreciate the clear education, and clarifying the absurdity by which modern patents can distort who really invented something.

@SomeOrdinaryJanitor Год назад

as someone who's been using a lot of subtitles in videos, I appreciate that you took the time to caption your vids.

@miigon9117 3 года назад

5:01 "you are actually a capacitor. you are useful" Finally, my life goal has been reached

@arturpekosz 3 года назад

"You are actually a capacitor of about a 100 picofarads. And that means you are useful." 😁😁

@subliminalvibes 3 года назад

Like my Grandad use to say, "Everyone has *potential*."

@Killerspieler 3 года назад

that praise right after the capaci-tater... killed me.

@neoasura 3 года назад

It would be cool if people had different levels, or there was a way to increase your picofarad count.

@miniskunk 3 года назад

This is why under the right circumstances(such as when the humidity is extremely low), you can make some rather impressive static discharge bolts. I highly recommend using something metal in your hand if you try to build up enough charge to make long bolts. It will really smart if you don't.

@nobodysbusiness87 3 года назад

someone needs to put that on a T shirt.

@Mr.Nobody5899 Год назад

If my teachers made learning as entertaining at this guy I probably wouldn’t have dropped out

@muskiet8687 2 года назад

We had a television with touch switches around the beginning of the 80's. Flies would regularly switch channels for us.

@sirkowski 3 года назад

Whenever you think you're useless, remember that at least you're a capacitor.

@Vasharan 3 года назад

"We take the touchscreen for granted these days... unless you've got a Macbook" Ooo... shots fired.

@pariscloud2907 3 года назад

The touchpad more than makes up for the touch screen you have to use on Windows laptops because the Windows touchpads are terrible. edit: I know "Windows touchpads" depends on the actual OEM, but I have yet to use one that rivals the one on found on Macbooks.

@MonkeyJedi99 3 года назад

I actually have an Asus, and I looked specifically for a NON-touch-screen.

@MrCorrectify 3 года назад

@@pariscloud2907 Windows doesn't make touchpads, its just an operating system. There are quite a few touchpads on the PC market, from generic to proprietary, from cheap to high quality. You can compare Apple hardware to Asus or Lenovo hardware, but "Windows touchpads" is a nonsense statement.

@ArachenoxTheLynx 3 года назад

@@pariscloud2907 Touchpads are terrible no matter what device they're on. Besides, windows is an operating system, not a manufacturer of any kind of hardware.

@thegeforce6625 3 года назад

SeñorSpice although Microsoft does have a spec for the “Precision Touchpad” drivers that offer an experience like apple’s touch pads, and they get pretty close.

@m-the-bug Год назад

My nana used to have something similar; a china cabinet that would light up the display shelves when you touched the hinges.

@stamdar1 5 месяцев назад

I really hate when youtubers promise sources in the description and fail to deliver. God bless you for breaking that trend. 🙏

@ChrisKnowles1170 3 года назад

"Pushless Push" is the silliest version of the word 'Touch' I've heard so far.

@DOVraps 3 года назад

I am a 23 year old rapper. I recently made a track in support of the BLM Movement. Please click on my channel, give it a listen and let me know what you think!!!!!!!

@voidofspaceandtime4684 3 года назад

@@DOVraps no, I don't think I will.

@NightMotorcyclist 3 года назад

The push for pushless push

@DocNo27 3 года назад

A very German phrasing :)

@TyMeadorMusic 3 года назад

"All those questions and more will be answered after THIS sentence" I'm ROLLING. I love your sense of humor.

@brandon0sh 10 месяцев назад

Alec, I have never cursed at my screen as much as when I'm watching one of your videos. It's all in good fun - I'm doing it while laughing - but you layer so much ppm (puns per minute) into your video that you would make Monty Python blush.

@judsonleach5248 2 года назад

I have an old Ramsey Electrics kits to build one of these…. Although I haven’t yet built my “touch switch” - although… once again…. You may have just inspired me to turn on my soldering iron, Sir! Thanks! - Judson & Buddy! - THE Golden Hound Dog of Ohio! - God Bless You ALL!!!

@AndrewFrink 3 года назад

"capacitater" is the best pun in the first 5 minutes.

@WammyGiveaway 3 года назад

1:14 "...they were all the rage in the age of beige, new age raves and Nicolas Cage's coming-of-age..." That is one of the most clever written rhymes I've ever heard! Very impressive.

@christianterrill3503 3 года назад

Guess you have never listened to MF DOOM then lol

@Ivan-fy3pr 3 года назад

But it rhymes age with age! Twice!

@WammyGiveaway 3 года назад

@@christianterrill3503 No I have not. The only thing I know about him is that he collaborated with Ghostface Killah from Wu-Tang Clan. Any song recommendations?

@brewskimckilgore6796 2 года назад

i been watching your vids but never comment, so here i am commenting. i appreciate you and your content. takes me back to like watching how its made as a kid only so much more specific & in depth. thank you i love you

@InspiredSkeptic 27 дней назад

I absolutely love all your videos. You are humorous, intelligent, and can turn the topic of any old "boring" thing into an interesting educational and entertaining episode.

@jedinellum 3 года назад

"Capaci-tater", I needed that laugh.

@Vodhin 3 года назад

*"Capaci`tater"* You made me spit my coffee out of my nose... again...

@Srcsqwrn 3 года назад

It's almost on par with the sprinkler video!

@rolandos8758 2 года назад

This got me too

@dangerrangerlstc 2 года назад

Had to pause and collect myself first.

@facurojas4477 9 месяцев назад

"Thanks to the magic of buying two" one of the best quotes I take from this channel

@dragostalks7501 2 года назад

My God! You! with a very limited budget, from a room, making videos for almost 20 minutes, boring videos, you sir manage to keep me interested all the tine with some of the best information on the internet! Thank you for making youtube a better place and thank you for all your time and research and sharing! Great content.

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic 3 года назад

"All these questions and more will be answered, after THIS sentence" will now be used on a daily basis. Thank you for this.

@pablorepetto2759 3 года назад

Hear, hear!

@The_Original_Default_Username 3 года назад

About Aladdin Lamp Company: "Their Genie-ous idea" - I didn't miss that joke, well done

@Voltechs 3 года назад

likewise!

@notquiteordinary 3 года назад

You didn't miss a joke? I'm very proud of you for having basic cognitive ability.

@jonathantatler 3 года назад

I'm still laughing at "capasi tatta" 😂😂😂😂

@Voltechs 3 года назад

notquiteordinary thanks bud, you seem like a blast to be around!

@The_Original_Default_Username 3 года назад

@@notquiteordinary I bet you're a blast at parties

@Sharonmxg 2 года назад

Dude, you make me LOL every time with your puns and sarcasm. "All these questions and more will be answered after this sentence". golden.

@Intense_Cloud 10 месяцев назад

Man, I like your channel, all those things you've presented here with your sense of humor makes it fun and entertaining to watch, all while learning the insides of whatever is that you show us. Thank you! I'll keep watching.

@cybercj99 3 года назад

I laughed way too hard at the capaci-tater joke

@stevenemert837 3 года назад

Electronics puns are the best. By the way, in the way of unique electronic components, if you put 1000 Volts AC across an electrolytic capacitor, you get an electronic confetti generator.

@Twitchi 3 года назад

There was a pause in my brain for 1/10 of a second.. and then laughter erupted from me, in an episode so packed full of quips and puns. this one was the best

@Django45 3 года назад

it flew over my head until the credits outtakes. Somehow I did not connect potato and capacitor together correctly. I just thought he said the word incorrectly and somehow left it in. HAHA :D

@GoofyOldGuyPlays 3 года назад

"then you've made a capaciTater" I actually spit my coffee out on that one. This is among the top 5 funniest videos you've ever made. I really enjoyed it. Nothing like learning and laughing at the same time. Thank you! Oh, and if you want to see something really cool, point a nice bright laser pointer at an angle on your phone and look at the reflecting light from your phone screen on the other side of the angle.

@TheVonMatrices 3 года назад

That was the funniest pun he's made in all videos so far. Why make lemon batteries when you can make capacitaters?

@Reddotzebra 3 года назад

I never understood why they made it until now, but there is an addon HAT for the raspberry pi that literally lets you attach fruit to act as capacitive switches.

@freedomandguns3231 2 года назад

My Grandpa had one of these lamps. He used to like showing it to us as kids. Thanks for the nice nostalgia blast haha.

@tcd2cool 22 дня назад

My grandma has the EXACT same lamp shown here. I loved playing with it as a kid. I hope to take it with me some day.

@Tony32 3 года назад

Did you say: "The were all the rage in the age of beige, new age raves and Nicolas Cage's coming of age" in one take? I was sure I was going to see it in the bloopers.

@NeoTechni 3 года назад

Same here!

@wernerfritsch6436 3 года назад

Yeah, I immediately stopped the video and repeated that sentence.

@shawndavis779 3 года назад

What is this, a crossover episode?

@VolcanoEarth 3 года назад

That phrase should be the hook in the first top-10 single released by the post-punk band called Fleshy Digits.

@lvikng57 3 года назад

every light in my grandmothers house was one of these and I remember running around the house touching all the lamps. Thank you for reminding me these exist and answering a question I've had since before the internet.

@cyclone6640 3 года назад

I still have a couple of these in the bedroom of my house. I also was wondering how they worked recently, but I didn't know what they were called. Well, I guess this was (or wasn't) a coincidence lol

@christopher88719 3 года назад

I remember as a kid touching all kinds of lamps at people's houses that remotely looked like one of these lamps in hope of it turning on. This style of metal lamp was really popular in the late 80s and early 90s, however most all of them had the rolling switch on the cord. So much disappointment.

@adeptmage2293 2 года назад

"The bee's meow" I love it

@5ba378 2 года назад

“Thanks to the magic of buying two of them” gets me every time. 😂🤣😅

@marley7145 3 года назад

"Let me state that I am no Big Clive..." *proceeds to analyze the circuit board*

@OldWhitebelly 3 года назад

He did analyze the circuit board. Clive would have analyzed it until it caught fire or exploded.

@nsfeliz7825 3 года назад

he has no beerrrd.

@loopshackr 3 года назад

@@OldWhitebelly More than you think... be sure to watch the follow-up video on his Connextras channel.

@marley7145 3 года назад

@@OldWhitebelly Alec: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

@ewetoob1924 3 года назад

I'd never heard of "Big Clive", so google it and the first thing I see is "RU-vid Electrical Engineer “Big Clive” Comes Out As Gay". Now why should I care if a youtuber is gay? But, against all logic, I guess I do feel this need to know.

@CapriUni 3 года назад

I'm physically disabled, and when I moved into my own house back in 1996, I had one of these by my bed because I I couldn't actually reach up and turn the switch to turn the light on and off from my bed. At Christmas time, I also had the tree's light strings plugged into an adapter (which you mentioned). The problem was that, although the lamps worked great in the beginning, after a while they got fussier and fussier, and eventually stopped working altogether. But yeah. A great adaptive aid for those with low dexterity or hand strength.

@Orynae 3 года назад

If it's just hands that are the issue, foot pedals are great too!

@CapriUni 3 года назад

@@Orynae Yes, for people who can use them. ...But foot pedals are not much use for a bedside lamp, when your feet are deeply snuggled under the covers.

@Orynae 3 года назад

@@CapriUni haha, true

@jasonbrown467 3 года назад

you know it does seem like the people i know that had them back in the 80s didnt keep them. who tosses out good lamps? i bet most of the ones that were plugged in for years all went bad eventually

@MonkeyJedi99 3 года назад

I wonder, since it calibrates when plugged in, if unplugging and re-plugging would help "reset" the sensitivity?

@stephenbeck6410 9 месяцев назад

Love the frequent puns!

@mark4you2014 2 года назад

I watch these videos from start to finish only to create the dramatic build up to the fantastic bloopers and credits at the end. Marry Poppins would be so proud and I quite like your work. Bravo! Bravo! Please, take a bow you’ve earned it, indubitably!

@hngldr 3 года назад

"Thanks to the magic of buying two of them!" is one of my favorite things. Also that rhyming description of the 80's was beautiful

@Grisu1805 3 года назад

Buying two of them and taking one apart will never loose its magic.

@DedmenMiller 3 года назад

"This lamp is from 1986 or 1987" The chip in the lamp says 8718 That means the chip was produced in the 18th week 1987, and the lamp probably shortly after that.

@oz_jones 3 года назад

Neat.

@Otome_chan311 3 года назад

The lamp is allegedly from 1986 or 1987 but the chip says it's from 8718 and it seems pretty futuristic to me.

@seraphina985 3 года назад

Could have been as much as 2-3 months fairly easily depending on where the semiconductor fab, PCB assembly, final assembly and retail location were relative to each other. It's not that hard to accrue a couple of months shipping time between component production to final retail sale. It's fairly common to see components that have made a full circumnavigation or more via ship complete with the additional customs and logistical delays as it is landed for each step along the supply line. Also since that would come close to Q3 this is around the time of year when there tends to be the most buffering at the retail end of the supply chain as manufacturers tend to output products at fairly steady rates but retailers in Western markets have a large demand surge in Q4.

@seraphina985 3 года назад

@@SolRC This has been pretty common for a long time certainly in the 20th century having goods and their parts produced all over the world has been pretty normal. Whether it will stay that way is another matter some of the disparities in manufacturing that really forced this seem to be narrowing over time. In particular gaps in technological capabilities are narrowing in the 80's it was probably still worse than today these days places like China are less behind in their ability to replicate the latest IC designs locally as they have narrowed the gap in terms of the capital assets and infrastructure needed to do that. Also, there has been an ongoing squeeze from the other direction as the fiddly process of PCB assembly has become less labour intensive with improved robotics also so there is less of a stark divide in competitive advantage between countries when it comes to semiconductor fabrication and assembly which is the driving force for shipping stuff back and forth so much the cost savings must be larger than the costs of shipping and logistics after all.

@christophers.8553 3 года назад

@RDE Lutherie That's because he's correct. This is a really standard DIP IC date code of that era, I have many thousands of 1980s DIP chips to maintain arcade games (Plus, I started EE degree in the late-1980s) and the vast majority of manufacturers mark them like that. TI is a pain because sometimes a pain because they don't. But almost everyone else does, and they all look like that, year then week in a 4-digit code YYWW. From TI and Sanyo to custom LSI shops like AMI. Signetics, National, Intel. Most of the plants used them. Some use a 3-digit code, like 050 for the 50th week of 1980. The Triac in the lamp was made in the 13th week of 1987. I just grabbed a bin of Atari 800 memory boards (some made by Atari, some third-party manufacturers or basement jobs) of my workbench and I can see ICs by National, Signetics, TI and Raytheon all of which use the 4-digit standard of the era. (RAYT8208, B8216, etc). I found four National parts (74LS10, 74LS00, 74LS86 and 8 5290's (4116)) and one TI part (74LS138) that used the three-digit code with the YWW format. But others of those same parts by the same manufacturers that used the 4-digit code, some from the same year.

@PersonManManManMan Год назад

As I am getting older I am starting to love puns and dad jokes even more, especially if it's cleverly introduced in regular conversations.

@3RAN7ON 5 месяцев назад

Growing up, my friend's family had one of these lamps. They lived near the train tracks and every time a train would go by, the lamp would turn on

@LizyBee 3 года назад

My grandma gave me one of these when I was a kid so I grew up with it as my bedside lamp! Two interesting things happened with it, 1: my cat learned how to turn it on with his nose and liked doing it at 3am, and 2: it turned itself on during thunderstorms

@zachschwartz7455 Год назад

I was just thinking, “wow it would be nice to get one of those conversion kits for my bedside lamp” and then I remembered that I have two cats who will definitely learn to turn it on at ungodly hours. 😂

@riley9464 Год назад

my aunt had one that would cycle through all the settings at least twice then land on a random one, no idea what caused it, most likely a defect im assuming, but it was pretty amusing to mess with when we were bored during thanksgiving

@trudaftgunpunk Год назад

The. One I have has 3/4 modes if you're including off. I'd always know if the power had gone out or a surge since the light would be on

@Iruparazzo 3 года назад

"I'm not one to toot my own horn..." Missed opportunity to fire up the klaxon again

@minacapella8319 2 года назад

I'm so glad I'm getting your videos on my recommendations again. This channel is a treasure.

@furies 2 года назад

I appreciate you taking the time to expand our knowledge on everyday things you don't normally think about. Love the vids.

@preacherplays 3 года назад

"The Aladdin lamp company. Their Genie-ous idea...." I love this guy.

@thoubias 3 года назад

That company probably had the same idea when choosing its name

@poppaganja3793 3 года назад

@@thoubias ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3kDeWLC_Zx4.html🤣

@thoubias 3 года назад

@@poppaganja3793 You missed a great chance to rickroll me

@belltower4799 3 года назад

"We take the touch screen for granted these days, unless of course you've got a MacBook." Ah yes... 'tis a touchy subject.

@sberniz 3 года назад

haha that line made me laugh lol

@SlashCampable 3 года назад

Care to elaborate? I really didn't understand that comment.

@Karl_Kampfwagen 3 года назад

@@SlashCampable It's hilarious, because MacBook costs so much, and doesn't have features which make it worth the price. 🤣 Every artist would love to have a TouchScreen and use the Apple Pen as stylus, but they only put Capacitive-Touch screens on phone and iPad. Such a shame.

@Vylpes 3 года назад

Hunter Vapes They’ve got the iPad for that, drawing on a vertical laptop screen wouldn’t be a great experience at all

@Karl_Kampfwagen 3 года назад

@@Vylpes 😐 You DO realize that other brands have installed 180° hinges and touchscreens in laptops, right? Because it's like having a Wacom input device, BUILT IN to the laptop... If you wanna pay more for less, that's up to you, bud. But I'm not going to pretend that the tech doesn't exist, like every single Mac user...