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...interview with Louise Erdrich took place while she was trying to hold onto her "wonderful, healthy" active eight-month-old baby (ten and a half pounds at birth!) in Cornish New Hampshire, and I was trying, in New Jersey, to hold onto my $1.99 rubber dart gun gadget from Radio Shack that allows you to both tape and talk to someone on the telephone [emphasis hers...
...which was amended last year to require that high-performance parts meet the emissions standards of the car for which they are built. Today most superchip makers are scrambling to bring their products up to that code. Meanwhile, a California start-up called Adaptive Technologies has introduced a nifty gadget that lets you drive around in your superchipped wheels and then, when it's inspection time, switch back to the original chip with a twist of the wrist...
BIOFEEDBACK. For mechanistic Westerners, this is the mystical in gadget form. By looking at dials on a machine that measures skin temperature (stress cools, relaxation warms) or electrodermal response (similar to an electrocardiogram), the patient, wired with sensors, learns to control what is usually involuntary: circulation to the extremities, tension in the jaw, heartbeat rates and even pupil size (for advanced students). "If you studied yoga for years, you might be able to get the same effect," says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan...
...station of its varied and often contradictory functions. No longer was it to be a truck stop or observation platform or metallurgical factory. The sole stated scientific rationale left for the station was to conduct biological research on weightlessness, but the plans originally omitted a centrifuge, the most important gadget needed to do that work. The National Academy of Sciences concluded that the space station had no scientific use at all. Which left as the main purpose of the station what cynics have suggested it was all along: to be a sort of WPA for the aerospace industry...
...rivals, Motorola was selected to provide the digital voice technology for the Japanese telephone network's next generation of cellular equipment. One of Motorola's prime selling points is believed to be its pocket-size Micro-TAC cellular telephone. Introduced last year, the tiny device is already a coveted gadget in Japan. Motorola's breakthrough sent the electronics company's stock to 80 3/4, up 4 1/8 points for the week...