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'''I think that it is interesting that vibrators got their big start in health spas.  Years ago, spas were the first sign of tourism, since people came from all around to relax and cure their illnesses.  I found it interesting that this was were the vibrator was actually formed.'''  The other interesting point that I saw was what was meant by the camoflage rhetoric.  Up to this point in the semester, we have seen tools that have had a profound effeciency use in the home.  Maine's article may be the first article this year that looks at inventions that reach out to a certain kind of leisure class.  -Patrick Kramer
 
'''I think that it is interesting that vibrators got their big start in health spas.  Years ago, spas were the first sign of tourism, since people came from all around to relax and cure their illnesses.  I found it interesting that this was were the vibrator was actually formed.'''  The other interesting point that I saw was what was meant by the camoflage rhetoric.  Up to this point in the semester, we have seen tools that have had a profound effeciency use in the home.  Maine's article may be the first article this year that looks at inventions that reach out to a certain kind of leisure class.  -Patrick Kramer
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I found the idea of social camouflage to be very interesting.  Especially, the knowledge that the producer of a product would already what kind of consumer would most likely be purchasing their product. The author wrote that the marketing of socially camouflaged technologies is directed at the costumers who already understand the product, but whose possibly illegal or culturally unacceptable intentions of use can not be recognized by the seller of the goods (p 128).  The idea that a device designed for grinding and prepping fine powders would simply be used with spices or vitamins, or a finely calibrated scale with case would be most likely be used to weigh jelly beans is amusing.  -Kathleen Mead

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