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...Aurex Corp. of Chicago last week announced a new gadget for increasing the hearing range of people with normal hearing. It might also do for eavesdroppers what binoculars have done for Peeping Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among...
Watchful Brain. Karsch's simple safety screen has worked well, but recently he got a better gadget: an "Impact Predictor," which can tell in advance just where each rocket will hit. Two observers track the rocket with telescopes. The information from the stations is fed automatically into an electronic brain (analogue computer) which can solve complicated equations almost instantaneously...
...Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
Hooks & Cloths. The stuff ranged from fishhooks to architecture, and each New World exhibit has its Asiatic counterpart. In most of Oceania, for instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
Last week Langs confessed: "I don't know anything about merchandising. It will take a big outfit to market this properly." If the right company answered the ad, Langs said he might turn over the gadget and just take a royalty...