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...worth of foreign cameras was imported into the U.S. last year). He is particularly taken with such fairly new products as baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes as the Globetrotter Gadget Bag ("Leather-covered sponge rubber bumper for carrying against body," $42.50) ; Steineck A-B-C Camera ("Straps to the wrist . . . brilliant finder for sighting at waist level," $150); Flexing Powelites ("Portable Sunshine . . . adjust your lights to any desired position...
...amateur strides on, gadget bag bumping against his body, camera on his wrist, portable sunshine at his elbow, the little darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...
While the Lieutenant was demonstrating at length the perils of the anchor chain, my eyes wandered to another officer, hunched over what appeared to be a slot machine. "That's quite a gadget," my guide explained, "you press one button and a Naval question flashes up, then you press another button to answer it." Seeing that I was interested, the other officer casually punched a button concerning the intricacies of Naval dress. "Damn uniforms," he muttered, as the machine flashed red for wrong. Now more intent, he jabbed another button, and his face lit up with the machine. "Got twenty...
...Louis department-store show window one day in 1932, Fred Allen, a reformed juggler, made his television debut. The performance was part promotion stunt for his touring show (Three's a Crowd), part demonstration of a new gadget called Sanabria Giant Television,* which transmitted a fuzzy image of Allen to an audience on the store's third floor. "I just stood there and talked," Allen recalls. "It must have come out on the screen like a jumping passport...
Adjustable Battery. Willard Storage Battery Co. announced that it will soon put on sale a new auto battery with a special plastic gadget to adjust the water according to the seasons. More water in summer cuts acid deterioration, the company said, and less water in winter gives the battery more...