Before the Apple ...

A friend posted this way cool video/commercial today on his blog and it got me to thinking and remembering What came before the apple as show in the following video:
 The earliest "cool" photos I remember were usually in the LIFE magazine and I know that I studied this one for extended amounts of time.

In 1937 Harold Edgerton began a lifelong association with photographer Gjon Mili who used stroboscopic quipment, in particular, multiple studio electronic flash units to produce strikingly beautiful photographs, many of which appeared in Life Magazine.  When taking multiflash photos this stobe light equipment could flash up to 120 times per second.  Edgerton was a pioneer in using short duration electronic flash in photographing fast event photography, subsequently using the technique to capture images of balloons at different stages of their bursting, a bullet during its impact with an apple, or using multiflash to track motion.....
Wikipedia/Howard Edgerton