Introduction : technostories -- The ocean's hotdog : the fish stick -- The sports bra : gender and technology -- Sugar, bananas and aluminum cans : technology, colonialism and post colonialism -- Mass produced nutrition : industrial potatoes and industrial sweeteners -- Technology and (natural) disasters you cannot fool (mother) nature -- Big artifacts : technological symbolism and state power -- Conclusion : what have we learned from this? books, bicycles, and other things that go bump in the light.