Word: chipping
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...things are finally looking up for the electronic nose. Thanks to advances in chip technology and pattern-recognition techniques, increasingly tiny sniffers are beginning to live up to their moniker. Today e-noses are being tested for everything from disease detection to disaster prevention, and lower-priced models are starting to come on the market--including an $8,000 device called the Cyranose 320 being introduced this week by Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif...
...Cyrano's enthusiastic (and aptly named) ceo Steven Sunshine is to be believed, Cyranose is "seeing" in Technicolor. When properly trained, its 32-sensor Nose-Chip[TM] can sniff a particular variety of rice and tell you not only which one it is but also where it was grown. Does it smell as well as we do? Yes and no. It has trouble detecting some things to which human noses are acutely attuned--such as the stench of rotting eggs--but it can be trained to pick up others most people would never notice. There are limits, however...
...them referring to himself in the third person. Something in his gaze told me he doesn't ever sleep, and might possibly breathe through his eyes. As I was about to learn, he has been lying in wait for just the right moment to skitter out and chip away at George W. Bush and Al Gore, and that moment has arrived. Buchanan's plans this week include everything from national television appearances to a St. Patrick's Day fund-raising bash...
...found solace here. Reports of sojourns range from such witticisms as "very stimulating" to "a bloody good time." John Vesey raves about this Camelot. "Wow! The Kennedy vibes are intense. Inspirational sounds so put-on but it certainly is that." Occasional remarks invite puzzled looks-- "ONION," "Long live chocolate chip cookies!" and the oh-so political "No comment." Others invoke giggles--"Yowzah!" and "Much nicer than Nixon's old room at Whittier." Sensing conspiracy, Vicki Hunter pens, "The truth is out there." Dan Rather of CBS News, however, takes the cake, as he ponders the deeper philosophical quandaries...
...cards, but by the 1980s--in another example of state-led adoption of new technology--France Telecom introduced prepaid telecartes that rendered coins in phone booths obsolete. Applications quickly blossomed as the association of Carte Bleue debit cards ordered their banks to fight fraud by issuing only chip-embedded cards, and as France Telecom issued the Minitel with smart-card readers to enable online purchase of everything from opera tickets to train reservations--well before anyone had heard of the Internet...