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Published: 2009-10-27 02:40:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 4278; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 913
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Geiger counter used by James Bond in first movie Dr. No, 1962.Download it here as part of the set: [link]
Screen: [link]
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Completely done in Photoshop with vectors and layer styles.
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Updated with some details redrawn/corrected
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The geiger counter used by Sean Connery in the film Dr No is a real instrument, it's the Thorn EMI Portable Contamination Monitor No. 1, or PCM1, which used 12 D cell 1.5 volt batteries. In the film, it is coupled to geiger muller probe type BP3. However, the box is designed principally for the scintillation dual phosphor probe DP2, which discriminates between alpha and beta particles to produce beeps for alphas and clicks for betas, using a pulse height discriminator circuit (typical 5 MeV alpha particles produce a 10 times brighter flash when hitting zinc sulphide phosphor, than typical 0.5 MeV beta particles when they hit a plastic phosphor). The user handbook explains all this in greater detail with pictures, and it is online in PDF format.
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Looks awesome 
i'm not a pro like you, but i would like to suggest some things, that are:
-the red light(?) on left, seems like disapear from 48px size, dont know if should or not anyway
-and then the upper left controller(?) dont seem to have 3Dimensionality (i think).
lovly icon!
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well, at those sizes vector start to behave funny...
I gave 3rd dimension to controller. at least I tried. do you think it is not enough?...
hmm, I'll try to tweak it some more.
thanks for your comments.
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about the 3rd dimension i was thinking of somthing like / \ instead of ||.
and nevermind on the red light.. i looks good like it is.
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I know what you meant and you're right.
But I'll do even better. I'll rotate the whole knob for 45° and add /\.
I hope it'll look better.
Hell, I'll do it right now.
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jeesssus it's so perfect now
damn you are good!
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umm sorry man, but this don't really look like a geiger counter sorry 
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I took a reference from here: [link]
I guess there are few models.
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ahh ok, so long as you are going for a retro look it should be fine
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thanks.
I think that the next icon will give enough clue what is this all about.
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It has a nice 3d look but the buttons on the right side needs some work (black one's).
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hmm...
you're right. I'll take care of it.
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