Word: chip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page features rows of hamsters of all shapes and colors, from Chip 'n' Dale lookalikes to cousins of the stout Harvard Yard squirrels. With smiles on their faces, the hamsters shake, shimmy and bounce to the high-pitched sound clip from "Robin Hood...
...titled Pimp Chat--it's a sketch about a street hustler with a talk show. Hill's role: a 'ho. Or, if she's uncomfortable with that, she can play a female pimp. Hmmm. Now, being in an SNL sketch is a big opportunity--but this one might chip away at her image as a socially conscious artist. What's it going...
...editor said I could write about online privacy only if I promised not to rant again about how I think the whole issue is a big, stinking red herring. So I promise: I will not mention that the flap with Intel last week--whose upcoming Pentium III chips came under fire because they would automatically identify their owners to websites that asked--hardly raised my blood pressure. I like the idea that advertisers could use my chip to figure out who I am so that they could hit me with targeted ads; advertising is unavoidable, and the smarter...
Researchers at M.I.T. reported last week in Nature that they had built the first prototype "pharmacy on a chip," a tiny reservoir-filled microchip that could be made small enough to be swallowed or injected and smart enough to release drugs or hormones in a predetermined order...
...Dozens of pinprick-size containers are each filled with about 25 nanoliters of liquid, gel or solid and covered with a thin gold film. The chip is then immersed in a liquid containing low concentrations of chloride ions (like those found in human bodily fluids...