Oct 19 2011: The theremin was originally the product of Russian government-sponsored research into proximity sensors. The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeivich Termen.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWTWf-H1vzE
Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin
Oct 19 2011: We'll became completly dependent on artificial information environment (not mentally only, but phisiologically also). That will be big, but not really good thing we'll get.
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Here is the author:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWTWf-H1vzE
Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin
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