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Brannocks
Reading Wired Blogs's "Unsexy" category (for no other reason than I happened to notice it existed), I encountered an entry on "The Brannock Device" - the shoe-size-determiner that lurks under furniture in shoe shops. I mention it mostly for the before-the-marketing-department-existed name, but also because it made me think back to the wondering automatic foot measuring device that they used to have in Clarks shoe shops when I was growing up. You'd stand on a platform, and put your foot down into a metal box thing, and then metal blocks would slide out and measure your foot. There was always a slight frisson of "will it malfunction and crush my foot?" combined with a bit of Awe of Advanced Technology. And, apparently, now they're gone.
Yay progress, I suppose.
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