Dossiers A Better Life The Psionic Predator, by Charles Cosimano | Page 13

VIII
Every once in a while people will ask me where I get my ideas for my gadgets.
One of these years I'm going to get around to building a radionic set that looks like this
thing. Just seeing it makes my heart palpitate. (Which at my age can be a bad thing!)
Radionic units can be made to look any way that you want them too. The system is
infinitely malleable, there are no set rules. David Tansley decided to create
instruments that pleased his eye and his vision of how radionics actually worked and
thus his devices were laid down differently than the other instruments of his time and
this was considered very radical. When I design an instrument, other than my pure ly
basic sets that are useful in writing about this stuff, the aesthetics of it becomes as
important as the working of the unit itself, and in fact is inextricably bound up with the
function of the unit. In radionics, when you become advanced in it, form really does
follow function.