In it, an English peddler sings stories to a curious group of schoolchildren about the fantastic and exotic objects tucked inside his portable wooden cabinet.
Yet inside a portable office on the construction site, it is clear that Matz Engman, chief executive of the Lulea Business Agency, is already thinking of life beyond Facebook, the world's biggest social network, with 850 million users.
And so, when the god was transferred out of the main shrine in an evening ceremony in April, he was carried inside a portable shrine wrapped in a white cloth.
By 2000 they were down to 2.5 inches in diameter, small enough to fit inside a portable digital audio player like Creative's original Nomad Jukebox, which could hold 6 gigabytes on a device slightly larger than a portable CD player.
Mr. Pichler was a sculptor and illustrator whose works included a white, torpedo-shaped helmet with a television inside it ("Portable Living Room"), a rusty bed frame supporting a humanoid form divided by sheets of jagged glass, and numerous drawings and models of fantastical structures, among them floating cities and underground buildings.
"An investigation by online news portal The House News, which sent reporters undercover to join the rally, suggested one possible motive — cash handouts of $250 Hong Kong dollars," or about $32, given, in a surreal touch, "by an operative hiding inside a portable toilet".
Still, I can't be the only parent feeling whiplashed by the pace of technological changes, the manner in which every conceivable wonder — not just the diversions but also the curriculums and cures, the assembled beauty and wisdom of the ages — has migrated inside our portable machines.
A homogeneous, isotropic porous matrix of activated carbon inside a portable steel cylinder is considered as the adsorption bed for natural gas (NG) which is idealized as pure methane for the purpose of simulation.
