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'Bubble wrap was invented in 1957 by engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes in Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA. Fielding and Chavannes sealed two shower curtains together, creating a smattering of air bubbles, which they originally tried to sell as wallpaper. When the product turned out to be unsuccessful as wallpaper, the team marketed it as greenhouse insulation. Although Bubble Wrap was branded by Sealed Air Corporation (founded by Fielding and Chavannes) in 1960, it was not until a year later that its use in protective packaging was discovered. As a packaging material, Bubble Wrap's first client was IBM, which used the product to protect the IBM 1401 computer during shipment.
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'Fifty years later, Sealed Air has global revenues of more than $4 billion. Office Depot, for example, sells enough bubble each year to wrap around the Earth. Twice. "It seems like every day there's something new being done with bubble wrap," said Rohn Shellenberger, the company's business manager for air cellular products. "It's exploded since the year 2000. This whole phenomenon taking off has been a big surprise." Sealed Air's 100,000-square-foot warehouse, just off Interstate 80 about 15 miles west of Manhattan, is an obsessive-compulsive's dream, with row upon row of stacked rolls of Bubble Wrap as big as seven feet in diameter.
'The temperature is sweat-inducing, caused by the machines that process millions of granules of resin (one box is labeled "Munchy Resin") into clear plastic sheets at temperatures up to 560 degrees. Shellenberger pops one myth about Bubble Wrap; namely, that air is injected into all those tiny bubbles. Instead, it is trapped between the sheets after they pass over several rollers, one of which creates the indentations for the bubbles.
'Two apparently disparate forces conspired to shape Bubble Wrap's growth: The advent of the transistor — and later the personal computer with all its accessories — which made the shipping of delicate electronic components a multibillion-dollar industry; and the Internet, which provided a forum for fanatics to swap stories and cement Bubble Wrap as a cultural icon. "The act of popping Bubble Wrap is a little indulgence in some small act of destruction that is neither dangerous nor offensive," said Arthur Gallego, vice president of LaForce and Stevens, a marketing and trend firm in New York City. "It's mindless."'-- collaged
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Further
The Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors
'let the hours waste away with the PERPETUAL BUBBLEWRAP!'
bubble wrap @ Sealed Air
Virtual bubble wrap simulator
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
Bubble Wrap Maniac
Nuclear Bubble Wrap
Guiness World Records: Most People Popping Bubble Wrap
'Exam stress tackled by bubble wrap'
'How to Make a Bubble Wrap Storm Window'
Bubble Wrap Calendar
'The Stretchy Membrane That Could Replace Bubble Wrap'
'Stay Away from Foil-Faced Bubble Wrap'
bradley hart's injected bubble wrap paintings'
The Bubble Wrap Gene
The Official Bubble Wrap Club
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Sound
ASMR Sounds - ASMR Bubble wrap - Bubble wrap sound effect
Binaural Recording (3D sound in headphones): Bubble Wrap and Scissors
Popping Bubble Wrap ~ Sounds by Sophie (Relaxing ASMR trigger sounds)
Sound of bubble wrap ASMR
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Stills
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Applications
TUTORIAL: BUBBLE WRAP CURLS!
New York artist uses bubble wrap to create works of art
How to use bubble wrap to insulate windows
Is It A Good Idea To Microwave Bubble Wrap?
Infinite Bubble Wrap Keychain Review (Mugen Puchi Puchi)
Destruction Boy: Bubble Wrap like a boss with a steam roller
How to add texture to your painting using bubble wrap
Bubble Wrap Hip-Hop-Pop
Bubble Wrap Machine
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p.s. Hey. ** Thomas Moronic, So weird when that happens. No, you're the best! ** Kier, Hi, K. Yeah, I don't know 'Friday Night Lights', but that Riggins guy actually looks kind of like Elias, which is weird. An exclamation mark! That sucks and is kind of spectacular at the same time. I'm glad you're off work, duh, and now you have a week to chill, make art, and, like, do whatever you please that doesn't require too much arms usage, yeah? Did the arboretum live up to your preexisting love for it? Cool. Last night I was taking a walk down around Republique and, first, I ran into the great American theorist Avital Ronell, who's here in Paris briefly, and then, when I was walking in the general direction of home, taking a short/long cut down a small street, I crossed paths with David Bowie and Iman walking in the opposite direction. As I passed them, Bowie was saying, 'It isn't. It really isn't', and then she said, 'It is, David.' About what, I don't know. But, for a banal second, I wondered if they were talking about the just media-exploded Susan Sarandon reveal about her old affair with him, which made me feel media-exploded and gross. ** Steevee, The cynicism is really strange and based in something really unpleasant and just not good at all, I agree. ** Misanthrope, So, do swimmers have a uncommonly high tendency to get brain problems when they're older like boxers do? So getting a concussion is like breaking your little toe? I read somewhere at some point that people break their little toes all the time, several times a year at least on average. Shit, sorry big time about the allergy attack. Allergies are the devil's B.O. Nice reading you've got going on there, man, duh. ** Jeffrey Coleman, Hi, Jeff! Hitler, ha ha. Oh, right, I saw that about the rediscovered copies. I should forefront that. You did a nice job, so I'll copy and paste your version. Thanks! Everyone, Mr, Jeffrey Coleman brought up something this weekend that may be of interest maybe, so I'll let him do it right here on the front page. Here's Jeffrey: 'I don't know if anyone mentioned this here yet, but Infinity Land Press recently got ahold of 8 copies of Dennis''Gone' that they thought were lost. They're selling 5 for the reduced price of £25 since they got a bit damaged in the mail (I imagine they can send you pictures, what I've seen doesn't look that bad), and 3 for the standard price of £35, since those are in good condition. (They mentioned it on their Facebook page a few hours ago as of this posting, I don't know how many, if any, are left now, so cross your fingers and get one quick if you want it.) When you order at their site, you send them a message to reserve a copy before they charge you (probably to sort out shipping), so mention which price you want in the message box that comes up when you click 'BUY'there.' Thanks a lot for doing that, Jeff! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, sir. I didn't know about the Pet Shop Boys opera. Huh, I wonder how that'll pan out. And thanks for the link, which I'll ... Everyone, here's an Alan Turing-related tip for you from Mr. E. in his own words: 'Here's a link to a TV adaptation of Hugh Whitmore's play Breaking the Code with Derek Jacobi as Turning. Much too sentimental for my taste with next to nothing about his work. But Jacobi does a climactic scene with Harold Pinter playing a high-ranking official that's really something to see. Pinter started out as an actor and his instincts on that score never left him.' ** Grant maierhofer, Hey there, Grant. The Body and Thou together and live, shit, nice. Very cool thank you for the link to the excerpt. Let me share it pronto. Everyone, an awesome opportunity for you to read an excerpt from 'Erasure III', a new fiction thing by the mega-scribe Grant Maierhofer, exists courtesy of the wise site/journal Everyday Genius, and, wow, you should really take full advantage. Really. Here. Looking forward to it greatly, man. ** Damien Ark, Hey, Damien. Sweetness to see your words and brain here! Yeah, poor Robin, it's true. It's my fault, of course, but it couldn't be helped somehow, I guess. Thank you really a lot for the kind words. 'Hogg', wow, yeah, I've read it, and that's quite the comparison and compliment, man, thank you! How and what are you doing? ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron. Wonderful about the Richings post, thank you so very much. Yeah, sympathy and gotcha and emotion melding for sure. I wish I had a secret for dealing with it. I guess if I did, I wouldn't write about it. No, I'm left with my hope that writing will sort it out. I guess that's the only secret. 'Try and be OK', yeah. I wish there was a better and more secret method than that. I haven't read 'Crazy House' yet, no, sadly, as I've been too 'do' and too 'think about do' oriented of late. I will asap. Novels do help exorcise emotional stuff, and films must works the same way. Ongoing hugs, man. ** Bill, Hungarian pastries! What is their unique, Hungarian quality or essence or whatever? The 'ruined pubs' sound beautiful. I don't know much of anything about Budapest other than that it's a teeming hot bed of escorts. But you're with your family, so ... ha ha. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Huh, I guess I really need and want to see that ABBA transformation. I'll put it first in my post-p.s queue. Thank you! ** Keaton, I think so. I mean, aren't they? They look like ghosty, elongated spiders. I like them. When they hang out in places I live, I always feel very protective of them. I would even feed them if I knew what they ate. No, don't like cockroaches. Too many horrible infestations over the course. I hope you found your way back into the library without undo incident. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Thank you again so much. I had such a blast poring over and shoveling through all that amazing stuff. Thank you. Dazed Digital is being so incredibly on the ball and supportive of the best things these past weeks. It's very, very heartening. I hope your running around turned up everything you wanted it to. I'm good. Hope you are too at the very least. ** Sypha, Hi, James. Suzanne Vega Day! Cool! She's someone whom I definitely need to know a lot more about than I have known and currently do. Thank you so much! ** With that, that has happened. Today's post is one of those ... I don't know, infestations of a random tight focus by me on an ongoing interest or fetish or something, but I'm hardly alone, from what I discovered along the way. See you tomorrow.