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Brains is a highly-intelligent mechanical and aerospace engineer who is considered to be fifty years ahead of his time, and the world's greatest aircraft designer. [20] A highly valued if somewhat absent-minded and socially maladroit member of IR, he designed the Thunderbird machines and other vehicles and facilities used by the organisation and its agents – indeed, much of the hardware and infrastructure. He is also known to invent in his spare time; he once built a chess-playing robot called Braman (which fortuitously serves as an auxiliary computer in the episode " Sun Probe"). Brains' technical expertise is sometimes required in the field, in which case he usually accompanies the Tracy brothers in Thunderbird 2. [18] Simpson, Paul, ed. (2002). The Rough Guide to Cult TV: the Good, the Bad and the Strangely Compelling. Rough Guides. London: Rough Guides / Haymarket Customer Publishing. p.242. ISBN 978-1-84353-009-1. a b c Wilson, Giles (28 May 2008). "Ad Breakdown: Water on the Brains". BBC News Magazine. BBC. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009 . Retrieved 4 March 2014. a b Plunkett, John (30 September 2013). " Thunderbirds Are Go! Blends Old and New for Return of Classic Series". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013 . Retrieved 26 February 2014. Thunderbird, an emerging electronics company " incubated" by TCL, has announced its first possibly market-ready AR product, the Smart Glasses Pioneer Version. This pair of spectacles is, as the name suggests, the kind of 'true' smart glasses that integrate a working, partially transparent display capable of overlaying a mixed-reality display over the wearer's real-world surroundings.

Sangster, Jim; Condon, Paul (2005). Collins Telly Guide. London: HarperCollins. p.727. ISBN 978-0-007190-99-7. Zimmerman, Ira (9 September 2013). "Movies that Portray Stuttering". Minnesota State University, Mankato. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012 . Retrieved 3 March 2014.La Rivière, Stephen (2014) [2009]. Filmed in Supermarionation (2nded.). London, UK: Network Distributing. p.172. ISBN 978-0-992-9766-0-6. Hughes, David (2001). The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made. Illinois: Chicago Review Press. pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-55652-449-3. Archer, Simon (2004) [1993]. Gerry Anderson's FAB Facts: Behind the Scenes of TV's Famous Adventures in the 21st Century. London: HarperCollins. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-00-638247-8. O'Brien, Daniel (2000). SF:UK: How British Science Fiction Changed the World. London: Reynolds & Hearn. p.83. ISBN 978-1-903111-16-1.

a b c d e f g Anderson, Sylvia (1991). Yes, M'Lady. London: Smith Gryphon. p.25. ISBN 978-1-856850-11-7.In Pictures: Thunderbirds Creator Gerry Anderson". BBC News Online. BBC. 26 December 2012. Archived from the original on 13 March 2013 . Retrieved 4 March 2014. TCL didn’t reveal when the Thunderbird Smart Glasses Pioneer Edition will be available to consumers or how much they will cost. Alleyne, Richard (20 May 2008). " Thunderbird Brains Advert is YouTube Hit". Daily Telegraph. London: Telegraph Media Group. Archived from the original on 12 December 2011 . Retrieved 4 March 2014. Wilson, Giles (19 October 2004). "Ad Breakdown: Too Brainy By Half?". BBC News Magazine. BBC. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012 . Retrieved 4 March 2014.

Pang, Alex (2004). Thunderbird: the movie: x-ray cross-sections. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.20. ISBN 0-19-911249-5. OCLC 56436621. Right now it looks like you still need your phone to provide the Internet connectivity and most of the smarts, the glasses are mostly a display with simple touch controls on the side. Gray, James (12 June 2004). " Thunderbirds Are Go/ Thunderbird 6 Box Set DVD Video Review". The Digital Fix. London: Poisonous Monkey. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014 . Retrieved 3 March 2014. In the mid-1980s, Gerry Anderson proposed to develop a Thunderbirds re-make, T-Force. [13] As part of the updating of characters, vehicles and settings, Brains' myopia and stutter were to have been removed, and the character re-imagined as an eloquent computer scientist. [13] [14] In the late 1990s, before Jonathan Frakes replaced Peter Hewitt as director of the then-undeveloped live-action film adaptation, co-producer Tim Bevan approached comedian Rowan Atkinson with a view to offering him the role of Brains. [15]Voice actor David Graham did not base Brains' tones on any person in real life. [7] He explains that Brains' stutter – which he devised himself, without direction from the Andersons or scripts [7] – was a natural evolution of his characterisation: "It seems that with clever people the mind works faster than the mouth can speak." [8] [9] It is likened by Simon Archer and Marcus Hearn, writers of What Made Thunderbirds Go! The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson, to logical positivism, whereby "the mind recognises only unquestionable facts and often appears to work faster than the voice." [10] Graham also interpreted the character as being "innocent and unsophisticated", and possessing qualities of "absent-mindedness" and "vagueness". [11] Anderson expresses similar views, describing the role as that of "a young man pre-occupied and confident with his work and experiments, yet socially unsure of himself". [4] a b " Thunderbirds Cinema Review". The Digital Fix. London: Poisonous Monkey. 26 July 2004. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014 . Retrieved 3 March 2014. A negative effect of the character's delivery was the impact on the pacing of episodes: Anderson remembers that the stutter slowed the action, which potential distributors wanted to "move along fast", despite "bearing in mind that puppet action was slow enough without any speech impediments". [4] She concludes that while all concerned were impressed by Graham's "original interpretation", the stammer proved to be "one of those experiments that worked better in the recording studio than on the screen". [4] The scriptwriters solved the problem by abbreviating or cutting Brains' lines and limiting the character's appearances, [4] to the extent that by the end of Series Two, his speech impediment had been eliminated. [9] With Parker, Brains was Graham's joint favourite voice role for series. [12]

Our Technicians are experts at Dual Pane glass repairs and replacement. Need a new windshield? We've got you covered. How about a new table top or shower door? - We can do that too. The demo also shows that the glasses have a built-in camera (which sits on the bridge of the nose). You can snap photos, which automatically get transferred to your phone. There are no details about the camera or indeed the glasses themselves in this first announcement.Sperling, Daniel (26 May 2012). " Thunderbirds: Tube Talk Gold". Digital Spy. London: Hearst Magazines UK. Archived from the original on 21 June 2013 . Retrieved 3 March 2014.