Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...design a program to draw a child to the television set and pay attention," he says...
After the initial planning phases were completed, there were weekly meetings to design the animation and live "bits" along the lines of a children's vaudeville show, White says...
...make it through the 21st century and into the 22nd century. If this happens, and life becomes even longer, it may be due to one of our own's findings. That would leave the rest of us to report on the finding, critique it, buy stock in it and design policy around it. A few of us would ignore it completely. All of this would happen in Bilbao, Chicago, Pocatello and Rio De Janeiro, and in other places too. We will be right in the mix of the world, and we will be way out of it as well...
...essentially a smaller, more convenient version of 35-mm film. In a rare show of unity, Eastman Kodak and Fuji Photo Film--companies that truly, genuinely detest each other--worked with cameramakers to come up with a new design that solves some of photography's most basic problems, including getting the film to thread through the camera correctly (the No. 1 picture-taking pitfall according to industry surveys). With APS cameras, film cartridges are simply dropped in and thread themselves. You also get a choice of three picture sizes (standard, wide and panoramic), and the prints come back with...
...cameras. Canon discovered that many Elph buyers didn't even know, or care, that their new camera was an APS model, which is about as smooth a technology transfer as you can hope for. Elph just looks real cool, and it fits into a shirt pocket. "The design had much more impact than APS," admits Ted Ando, general manager of Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s camera division. Cameramakers have got the message, and a slew of Elph-licates are headed for store shelves...