Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turntable to re-create the sound. In digital recording, the music is sampled by a microchip at the rate of 44,100 times a second and expressed as a series of ones and zeros. Encoded in invisible "pits," the numbers are read by a player equipped with a laser beam, which relays the information to a microcomputer that converts the digits back to sound...
Since moderation-minded customers often shy away from buying binge-size bottles of hard stuff, some distillers have repackaged their products as premixed cocktails. While they have tried this before with limited success, they now plan to offer more varieties in slicker containers. Chicago's Jim Beam, maker of the top-selling bourbon, has introduced single-serving cans in which its flagship brand is premixed with lemonade and other soft drinks. Winemakers have caught on to picnic-style packaging as well. Yago Sant'gria, the Spanish wine, now comes in six-packs of the same cardboard containers (straws included) that...
...that? Show biz, not solemnity, is an American hallmark; taste is not guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. President Reagan's aides were concerned that their man would be demeaned by the Busby Berkeley choreography. Others joked about his pressing the game-show-size button to flash a laser beam that lighted the Lady. A malfunction, and there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words were simple and heartfelt...
...first commercial radar detector was invented in 1968 by, fittingly enough, a disgruntled motorist who felt that he had been unfairly nabbed for speeding. Dale Smith, a Dayton-area electronics whiz, dubbed his creation Fuzzbuster I. The theory behind the device is simple. Police radar sets bounce a microwave beam off an approaching car or truck in order to measure the speed at which the vehicle is moving. The target must be in a direct line of sight with the radar transmitter before an accurate reading can be taken. The radar emissions, however, can be detected by a simple electronic...
...denies Caltech's enviable record or doubts that it will achieve even more. This week Caltech scientists will announce the completion of a DNA sequenator, an instrument that uses a laser beam and colored dyes to analyze rapidly the structure of DNA molecules. And even while major astronomical discoveries are still being made with Caltech's 200-in. Hale Telescope, the school has joined with the University of California in building on Hawaii's Mauna Kea a 394-in. optical scope, the world's biggest, which will enable astronomers to see 12 billion light-years into space...