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...radio sextant, according to Radio-Astronomer Fred Haddock of NRL, is a dish-shaped antenna only three feet in diameter. When the receiver is switched on, it readily picks up the radio waves that come from the sun, and automatically turns to a point in the sun's direction. Then it "locks on," tracking the sun as long as it is above the horizon. The ship's navigator can find his position just as if he had an assistant watching the sun through an ordinary optical sextant. No cloudy weather gets in the way of the radio sextant...
...demonstrated a new method for giving freedom of movement to TV singers. Soprano Joan Diener, instead of being forced to stand near a microphone boom in order to be heard, was able to move at will in a TV studio by means of a tiny concealed microphone, transmitter and antenna. The antenna went around her waist as a belt, the transmitter was attached invisibly to her back, and the mike was hidden in her bodice. Total weight of the equipment...
Silent Speaker. Headphones for small-fry television fans have been developed by the Hoffman Radio Corp. Tricked out with rubber earpieces and a brightly colored plastic "antenna," the phones can be attached to the family television set so that parents can cut off the loudspeaker, have quiet while the children watch TV. Price: about...
R.C.A.. first color TV sets have just started rolling off the production line, will go on sale this month. Price: $1,000 for a 15-in. receiver plus $149.50 for service (one year) and installation (minus antenna). R.C.A.'s sales estimates for the industry: 70,000 in 1954, 350,000 in 1955, 5,000,000 a year...
...camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market. From its $2,000.000 plant in Stuttgart the first production models of the Contaflex were shipped to the U.S.A precision instrument with watchwork-size screws and springs as delicate as a snail's antenna, the 35-mm. Contaflex weighs only 18 oz.. v. 34½-oz. for the Rolleiflex and 29^ oz. for the Leica. It combines the simplicity of operation of the Contax with the easy focusing and accurate view finding of a reflex camera. Price of the new camera with f/2.8...