Word: flashlights
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...When I was a youngster and I should have been sleeping, I would read about Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher by flashlight underneath the covers at my grandparents' home. Later, a friend and I built a raft and tried to sail across Diamond Lake in Illinois, only to be rescued by fearful adults. When I was 11, my grandmother took me aboard the legendary Delta Queen. Now, after more than 80 years afloat, the Delta Queen is to be put out of service because of inaction by Congress. It brings to mind a Twain saying: "Suppose you were...
...father carries a flashlight and has been known to set napkins on fire trying to read the words on his menu," says Richard Foss, a California restaurant critic who has launched a service called Menu Repairmen. Foss cites Elizabethan fonts and old-German typefaces as egregious examples of hard-to-read styles used by pubs to signal authenticity...
...signatures - one column for Clinton, another for Obama. About 300 people showed up at one caucus site in Austin only to discover the small building arranged for the meeting (and which might have accomodated 50 people) was locked. So they caucused outside in the chilly night using a flashlight, loaned by a photographer, to see the caucus ballots. Needless to say, some of those results are likely to be disputed...
Enfucell batteries won't power your digital camera, your flashlight or your watch. At 1.5 volts they might be sufficiently powerful, but they don't last long enough. Rather, Happonen hopes first to sell large quantities to the makers of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which don't draw constant power and lend themselves to the battery's thinness. RFID tags are the tiny chips that are replacing bar codes. They wirelessly transmit information about themselves, making it easier to track, say, what's in stock in a store. Battery-powered RFID tags can transmit farther than non-battery-powered...
Rather than regulate the Taser's use, some government officials hope to replace the controversial device altogether. The Department of Homeland Security is funding the creation of a new non-lethal weapon called the LED Incapacitator, a flashlight-like device that uses high-intensity LEDs, pulsating at varying rates, to render a suspect temporarily blind and dizzy...