Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the freeways checking traffic (the gridlock that the press had predicted for a year did not materialize). To boost spirits, Ueberroth wore a different uniform each day: a bus driver's suit, a kitchen staffer's whites, a blue and gold usher's shirt. He strapped an electronic gadget on his hip that delivered printed, urgent messages...
...Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive?and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats to the minute. When Schroeder opened his eyes 3� hours later in the intensive-care unit, DeVries bent over his patient and whispered...
...over the past few years, but it is difficult to take an electronic matchmaker into the street or to clubs to check out chance encounters. No longer. A Paris specialty-electronics firm called Promotions et Qualité has developed a device known as "le Flashing." The cigarette pack-size gadget fits inside a shirt pocket or purse and beeps insistently when it comes within ten feet of someone carrying another Flashing that has been tuned to the same frequency...
...anticipation of just such a rescue, Solar Max's creators equipped the satellite with a pin, or trunnion, near its midriff. It forms a perfect mate with a gadget to be carried by Nelson that looks like a fat belly button. NASA calls that protrusion TPAD (for trunnion pin attachment device). Nelson will attach the TPAD to the pin and then fire some of the MMU'S thrusters to brake Solar Max's rotation...
...weekends he putters in his garage or enters one of his roadsters in a classic-car show. He may risk his capital on the newest computer technology, but he invests his passion in mechanical relics of an earlier age. "I don't turn on to the latest electronic gadget," he says. "I turn on to older, nonelectrical things...