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...site, but researchers have found ways to keep the invasiveness to a minimum. The Jarvik 2000--a far more elegant successor to the Jarvik-7--runs power through a fixed jack implanted behind the patient's ear. And Abiomed's AbioCor uses a small transmitter outside the skin to beam radio waves for conversion to electricity inside. Designers have also found ingenious ways to have their hearts do the actual pumping: the AbioCor is essentially a sphere within a sphere, with the inner ball scuttling back and forth...
Eliot House Dining Hall Manager Eddie Salerno wasn't sure all of his staff would make it across the balance beam set up in their dining hall...
Fitzgerald, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise on Vietnam, "Fire in the Lake," has devised a cunning booby trap. She equates the mystery of Reagan with the mystery of "Star Wars," his plan (visionary or goofy, depending) to erect an umbrella of space-borne laser and particle-beam weapons to protect America from nuclear attack. She examines Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI) and pronounces it no mystery at all, but merely an expensive, stupid idea. The same, she suggests, may therefore be said of Reagan. He cooked up SDI, she thinks, mostly to deflect the nuclear-freeze...
Microsoft's success in its consumer-electronics adventures should ultimately ride on connectivity: the extent to which all these Windows-seeded devices are able to talk to each other and share data. Imagine the timesaving advantages in this technologically fragmented world if you're able to beam a number from your Pocket PC to your Windows cell phone, or use the synchronicity between your satellite dish and your X-box to play games over a broadband network. "Their Windows-ness could turn out to be a benefit," says Mundie. In other words, if Gates has his way, Microsofties...
...steamship. He calls it Starwisp. It is a fishnet made of very fine wires and weighing less than an ounce. The net acts as a sail and is driven by the pressure of radio waves generated by a huge radio transmitter. The transmitter stays put, with its radio beam pointing in the direction we wish to explore, and the sail travels along the beam, picking up momentum from the radio waves. This scheme works beautifully in theory, but there are some practical difficulties to be overcome. The transmitter has to be gigantic and must focus the energy of the beam...