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...Battelle laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, researchers are working on those problems. They are devising painless alternatives to the hypodermic needle, fear of which causes many diabetics, for example, to delay necessary injections of insulin. One such device is the Mosquito, a small disk equipped with a tiny needle that penetrates only seven micrometers into the skin--not deep enough to impinge on nerve endings and cause pain. Attached to a patient's side, the disk allows mobility while it delivers the prescribed dose of drug evenly over a 24-hour period...
Carlson has just finished compiling a compact disk with all of the Amateur Scientist columns that have been written since the inception of the series as "The Backyard Astronomer" in 1928. He estimates that he sells 20 copies a day by mail order, and predicts an enormous expansion in sales when the product is picked up by the Ingram Book Group, a major distributor, later this year...
...software that converts DVD-quality movies into easily-transferrable files is also difficult to find. Under the Digital Media Copyright Act, it is illegal to distribute DeCSS, the program used to decrypt DVD movies and copy them onto disk. The MPAA has routinely threatened those who post the program on their websites or servers with legal action...
Solution? Buy an MP3 jukebox. Not those little MP3 players that store maybe 10 songs at a time, but the new sandwich-size devices that have enough hard-disk storage for 120 hours of music and are flexible enough to plug into your home stereo, car stereo...
Still, the Nomad was good enough to get me started. Its hard disk, unfortunately, was not sufficiently spacious to store my entire collection. Creative Labs claims the average CD collection is much smaller than mine, between 80 and 120 CDs, and the Nomad certainly has space for that. The rest of my bulky medley is now squatting happily on my computer's hard drive; I just swap tracks as necessary...