The man and his machine Panos Pappas demonstrates the power of his PAP-IMI by using a chain on his head to cause a current to leap from the coil. He calls it "modern scientific alchemy" and "micro-lightning." Others call it "a piece of junk" and "the worst of the newest technologies."

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