Word: designer
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...known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went off, divine inspiration struck...
...recently released review of the ACSR by an ad hoc committee of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's secondary governing body, echoed Bok's views. The report, prompted in part by Undergraduate Council criticism, substantially supported the ACSR's design and praised its effectiveness...
...their next step, the builders will add the robot--after some comprehensive modification--to a vacuum cleaner, a practical use not part of the original design. While the machine was not originally designed for housecleaning purposes, it can be programmed through the communication of its two computers to perform a certain movement or series of movements--a vacuum cleaner following a programmed map, for example...
...over again we could make it half the size. Conceivably, we could go to a computer company and give them the design of the entire board (the main mechanism in the robot, about two square feet in size), and they could put it all on a single chip," says Jury...
...bought these toasters? Probably the same person who approved the Canaday design plans. Canaday and Harvard toasters share that elusive "I looked ultra-modern in 1971" quality, although the toasters can occassionally take on a '57 Edsel appearance to particularly hungover toasting enthusiasts...