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Marian was standing with her back to the front door, stating at her television. For a long time now, Marian had felt as if she were connected to the apartment by a circular ton beam that ran through all the electrical machines she owned. She saw it as tunneling from the television through her midsection to the stereo and then around through all the electrical appliances in the room. When she went through the front door, she felt she had to pull out of the connection. She visualized the beam tearing, ripping out of the TV and stereo and dangling...
...Secret Connection Briefcase also has offensive capability. A business man has four his fingertips a flashlight designed to blind evildoers for up to four hours with an intense beam of light, as well as a wireless telephone with a built-in scrambler. A handy voice-stress analyzer will reveal whether or not the person being called is telling the truth...
...tear-gas canister and dye, all packed together so tightly that they fit inside the carved-out center of a stack of bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within...
More sophisticated and more expensive than the stylus disc, the laser-vision disc not only offers enormous storage capacity but provides random access and perpetual durability. A low-powered laser beam "reads" billions of microscopic pits of information imprinted on the smooth, shimmering disc. On each side are stored 54,000 images, any one of which can be called up instantly on command. The stylus and laser systems are incompatible, which leads to a great deal of consumer confusion. Moreover, unlike the video cassette recorder, the systems cannot record from television. Currently there are three videodisc machines on the market...
Some of the SAM sites were probably wiped out by Maverick air-to-surface missiles, or "smart" bombs, some of which are guided along a pinpoint beam of laser light to within a few feet of the target. They are comparatively slow, but still accurate...