Shoe-box size archival boxes are a useful, inexpensive, space-efficient way to save photos that aren’t important enough to put in an album, but are good enough to keep.

They did this by putting pieces of silicon or one of a number ofother solid materials inside a shoe-box-sized cavity and zapping the materialwith microwaves from a metal tip.

The weapon Duggan obtained was in a shoe box, in a sock, with a small hole cut away for the barrel.