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...painless substitute for the hypodermic needle was reported last week. The revolutionary gadget, called the "hypospray," is a kind of air gun that shoots an injection under the skin in a spray so fine that the patient usually does not feel...
...psycho-acoustic laboratory, the two doctors were working on earphones for the Navy. The listeners began to report strange, crunching sounds whenever they wore special earphones enclosing a small cavity. The sounds were at first discounted as mere heart thumps and breathing wheezes. But the investigators contrived a homemade gadget to clamp the earphones in place...
...Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
Extra Energy. Radar waves are electromagnetic waves like light and X rays; but since their frequency is enormously smaller, they carry much less energy per "photon."* They therefore provide what scientists call an "elegant" method of dealing out very small quantities of energy. Using a formidable-looking gadget, Lamb & Retherford shot radar waves of the proper frequency through hydrogen atoms in one of Dirac's predicted states. As soon as the energy was added, the atoms turned into the other state. Since energy was required to make the change, the experiment showed that the two states did not have...
...Germans, and Hitler's largely Rumanian-manned southern flank gave way to a Red Army romp. Behind the historic switch was an historic conversation-of the sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert Low dug out the record, cabled...