Ghastly Gadgets, Vol. 4
Reggie's Weekly Column on the Gadgets of Acclimated Spooks...
Acclimated Spooks, Light, & Power have, for many years, worked in the field of “fringe” science, which means we have always been on the cutting edge of technology. Our scientists around the world have always been experimenting with new and interesting gadgets and gizmos, and many of those advancements have gone on to make great impacts on the world (we don’t really like to brag, but do you really know who invented the television? We do…hint, hint…).
Yet just as we’ve unveiled many Earth-shattering products, there are many that have been invented that seem to serve little or no purpose. Not that these gizmos haven’t been amazing and not that many, many hours haven’t gone into them, it’s simply that once all the hard work has been accomplished, we soon discovered that, “Hey! We don’t really need this!”
Today, I shall tell you about one such invention. While researching ways to defeat Mr. Ping’s enemy (Sally the Alley Cat Burglar), Mr. Ping had a great need to trick the thief with a series of fake paintings that would cause her to steal the wrong painting. After trying several different methods, including hiring the world’s best reproduction masters and making moulds of actual paintings, one of our most esteemed colleagues, Dr. Mitchell Mitchell, invented a robot whose sole function is to make carbon copy recreations of famous paintings. By analyzing, x-raying, scanning, and various poking and prodding, Dr. Mitchell invented the “REMBRASSO 3000.”
The REMBRASSO 3000
To make a long story short, the Rembrasso 3000 worked and worked well. Sally the Alley Cat Burglar was caught, but then we had a dilemma…the Rembrasso 3000 was an extraordinary machine, capable of making reproductions that were as good, if not better, than the real ones, all the way down to the brush strokes and molecular composition of the paints. What were we to do with this fine machine? And if it got into the wrong hands, it would make these rare works of art not-so-rare works of art.
The bottom line is that the Rembrasso 3000 is sitting in a secure vault somewhere in the world…and there are a lot more gadgets just like it that Acclimated Spooks has had to keep out of the hands of the public. Which is really too bad, as I would LOVE to have a copy of Rembrandt’s The Abduction of Europa.
