{"id":1160,"date":"2015-11-09T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2015-11-17T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:31:40","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-computerized-ceiling-fan-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1160\/retro-scan-of-the-week-computerized-ceiling-fan-robot","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Ceiling Fan Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/casablanca_1985_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/casablanca_1985_small.jpg\" alt=\"CasaBlanca Fan Company Casablanca 1985 Robot Intelli-touch world's first computerized ceiling fan advertisement - 1985\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Play it again, Samtronic<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I ran across this ad for CasaBlanca&#8217;s Intelli-Touch, &#8220;the world&#8217;s first computerized ceiling fan,&#8221; in a 1985 issue of <em>Home<\/em> magazine that I found in my mom&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>My mother has subscribed to house decorating magazines for as long as I can remember, and <em>Home<\/em> is only one of many (other examples: <em>Better Homes and Gardens<\/em>, <em>Southern Living<\/em>).  I never thought that I&#8217;d feature a scan from one, though.<\/p>\n<p>But this ceiling fan ad was too fun to pass up.  It reflects a time when you could slap the term &#8220;computerized&#8221; on any electronically-controlled consumer product (even if it didn&#8217;t actually have a computer inside, which was often the case) and use it as a marketing angle.<\/p>\n<p>The robotic take on Humphrey Bogart&#8217;s classic film reminds me of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/333\/retro-scan-of-the-week-its-alive\">famous Maxell ads<\/a>.  Perhaps the same people were responsible for both campaigns?  I don&#8217;t know, but frankly, this would have terrified me if I had seen it as a kid.  Luckily, I found it when I was 34, so I&#8217;m only slightly afraid.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Home, May 1985, p.3]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> If you woke up one day and everyone looked like a metallic, boxy robot, what would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play it again, Samtronic I ran across this ad for CasaBlanca&#8217;s Intelli-Touch, &#8220;the world&#8217;s first computerized ceiling fan,&#8221; in a 1985 issue of Home magazine that I found in my mom&#8217;s house. My mother has subscribed to house decorating magazines for as long as I can remember, and Home is only one of many (other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[72,150,1210,1211,1213,1212,926,60,1215,1214],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-72","tag-advertisement","tag-ceiling-fan","tag-computerized","tag-home","tag-marketing","tag-mom","tag-retro-scan","tag-robot","tag-terrifying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}