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...hour), and electronic monitors that ring bells when trespassers plunge or fall in. Since a pool cover is probably the best idea, builders now offer a pushbutton elevator that rises out of the pool bottom until it decks over the pool as a play slab for parties. Unhappily, the gadget costs at least $1,500. Happily. $150 or so buys a polyethylene mesh cover that supports...
Tokyo being Tokyo and gadget-minded Japanese being gadget-minded Japanese, some campaigner for municipal quiet has dreamed up the idea of erecting an electronic billboard to measure Nishi-Ginza's sound level, translate it into phons (decibels), and transmit it in illuminated numbers to a populace presumably shamed into silence. There it stands, beside a bold sign proclaiming BE MORE QUIET! THE NOISE AT THIS MOMENT: 78 PHONS. STANDARD FOR RESIDENTIAL AREA: 50 PHONS. BUSY CORNERS: 70 PHONS...
Physicians and surgeons have long used innumerable electrical gadgets in diagnosis and treatment, but they have usually kept the current outside the patient's body. Now they are developing new and daring ways to use electricity inside the body-and, in some cases, to make the electrical gadget a permanent implant with rechargeable batteries...
While slightly larger than pocket size (seven and three-quarters inches wide), the Argument Settler is a useful gadget to carry around for consultation when you want to impress your friends or even take a little of their hard cash betting on such questions as: "Who ran for President with Adlai E. Stevenson as his vice-presidential running mate-and won!" "Which two-term Presidents kept the same Vice Presidents through both terms?" "Which Governor of what state belongs to a party other than the Democratic or Republican?" "Which four Presidents ran as Democratic Republicans?" "Who were Garret...
Hooray! For all the complaints, big and small, A.T.&T. has given the U.S. the world's least frustrating telephone service with the world's most trouble-free gadget. Kappel points out that the average U.S. phone needs a repair only once every five years; except in times of flood or other natural disasters, no A.T.&T. switching office in the past 40 years has been out of order for as long as ten minutes. No place is too inaccessible, no service request too small for A.T.&T.'s telephone men. They have put up phone booths...