Word: gadgeteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track record of travel that includes a stint in the Peace Corps. Paul Theroux, too, has styled himself in the mold of those American writers who demand consideration of their contribution to the literature of travel. He writes about the world as if a were a marvelously crafted gadget to be pulled apart and played with, something wondrous in all its aspects yet entirely susceptible to the grasp of his imagination...
...plate actually appears to foster to some degree the closing of the palate. Markowitz, who has been using such plates for seven years, says, "I've seen drastically defective palates fill in by 70% to 80% in ten months." Perhaps as a result, children fitted with the gadget seem to develop clearer speech than most cleft-palate youngsters. Says Plastic Surgeon Saul Hoffman, director of the Cleft Palate Center at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital: "We're all in favor of it. The prosthesis seems to narrow the opening and make surgery easier. We think...
...better pick up a "high explosive squash head" (HESH), which flattens against a tank before it explodes, sending out a shock wave that breaks up machinery and men. The list goes on; arrays of missiles, electronic and chemical nasties sweep over the reader in waves of gadget lust...
...Wozniak, the new machine was simply a gadget to show his fellow computer buffs. Jobs, in contrast, saw the commercial potential of the machine that could help families do their personal finance or small businesses control inventories, and he urged that they form a company to market the computer. The two raised $1,300 to open a makeshift production line by selling Jobs' Volkswagen Micro Bus and Wozniak's Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs, recalling a pleasant summer that he spent working in the orchards of Oregon, christened the new computer Apple...
Microwave ovens, made for home use since the mid-1950s but only truly popular in their newer, "safer" versions since the early 1970s, are seen by some experts as the coming gadget for the 1980s and beyond. Says Harvard's Masnick: "You can come home from work, take the chicken out of the freezer and have it on the dinner table in an hour." Also useful, says he, for houses where both spouses work, are security systems "to protect homes that stand empty...