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If the combo kettle is anything like the standalone Ikon kettle, it will have the most delightful and crisp 'ding' to alert you when the water is boiling. It's also illuminated internally to lead you to believe your water is being heated by some exotic thermonuclear process, instead of plain old pedestrian electricty.

One function....it totally has two: It also plot cosine waves, they are just pi/2 radians out of phase.

#1, I was thinking the same thing. I could see it being used for photographing things leaving or coming back to earth perhaps.

I just did some math, (which may in fact be totally wrong,) but with the 36 minute field of view, a 1.3m (diagonal) object at 120 m would fill the 35 mm frame.

And if it's mounting is anything like the 2000 mm lens on the previous page, it would be _so_ easy to hide on a rooftop and spy on people. Not conspicuous at all.

I still begrudge my folks (and this is now twenty years after the fact) for not caving-in and buying me the Futron monorail. I may carry that bitterness to my grave...