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re: how small is too small..

i think the perfect size cellphone is the one derrick zoolander uses.

The wall lights are very like a lamp I got in South Africa made from a drilled ostridge egg - it gives off lovely light.

PS. no ostridges were harmed in the making of my lamp they lay practice eggs which are not fertile and are smaller then their "real" eggs.

Does anybody remember a mirror developed a few years ago that shows an image as it is, not reversed?

Bridmw: they have practice children before the real ones? I'm sure there are plenty of people who would wish to have that ability...

The switchable mirror thing is also a theatre trick (think Phantom of the Opera). They use a scrim (perforated fabric) which has reflective qualities on one side, creating a mirror effect when light is shone on it from the front. When the front light is turned off and the scrim is backlit, whatever is behind it "appears" as if in the mirror.