Adapted from a comic book written by Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell possesses many hallmarks of the anime (Japanese animation) genre: vast metropolises, lovingly detailed robots, military hardware, pneumatic women with huge eyes.
At the hotel, only one heavy crane was operating, only one pneumatic drill, only one bulldozer and only on oxyacetylene burner.
A system of pneumatic tubes whisks money from customers to a central cash office.
And it was Belfast's cobbled streets which so distressed the bicycling son of a certain John Dunlop that he was inspired to invent the pneumatic tyres into which Schrader's engineers now so busily insert their pressure monitors.
That makes the ride a little harder than if the tyres were pneumatic, but means they cannot be punctured.The chain, based on the timing belt of a car, is also made from car-tyre rubber.
In 2010 the pneumatic power of Ziggy the Combot, a multiple winner of the televised robot fighting series Battlebots, lost a similar kicking duel with Amercican footballer Joe Nedney, of the San Francisco 49ers.
And the little aircraft sent aloft to publicise "The Outlaw" over Pasadena simply made two large, hazy circles in the sky, with a point at the centre of each one.The pair in question were neither voluptuous nor pneumatic by the standards of silicone inflation that came later.
Lightweight skeletal frameworks, composed of rods and wires and controlled by pneumatic "muscles", serve as the walls of a building; adjusting their configuration changes the building's shape.
In November 1989 while the "pneumatic drills are banging the first holes through the Wall," he notes that, "at the Palast Hotel [in East Berlin] a palm-court ensemble in dinner jackets plays to an audience of Bulgarians and Koreans".
In future, may we expect to read about prices exploding in the armaments industry, inflation in prices for pneumatic tyres and, in the case of condoms, an unexpected failure of prices to firm up?Mark Hayden Brussels * Letters appear online only.
Video-games accounted for only 16%.Damage to juvenile attention-spans caused by such game stars as Sonic, a hyperactive blue hedgehog, and the pneumatic Lara Croft, does not fully explain Lego's difficulties, however.
