Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driver's seat, it goes without saying, sits that gadget-gaga gumshoe, Tames Bond (Sean Connery). "Ta-ta," he chortles as he charges full throttle into his latest caper. Poor James. Little does he know that he is about to encounter the grand master of all master criminals, "the most evil genius he has ever faced": Auric Goldfinger...
Both these Russian bowmen have be come dedicated Californians; Los Angeles, they feel, will become the future cultural center of the U.S. "New York has been too casual about its cultural responsibilities," says Heifetz. Both live in swimming-pooled, tennis-courted luxury: Heifetz in a modern, gadget-strewn hilltop house in Beverly Hills, Piatigorsky in a rambling white frame mansion in nearby Brentwood...
...phone call brought the happy news that Dr. Bronson's gadget was ready for its first trial on a human patient. The engineering part of the job had been done by Philadelphia's Smith Kline Instrument Co.; Surgeon Bronson had already tried their Ekoline-20 ultrasonic probe successfully in the eyes of cats and in surgically removed human eyes. Dr. Bronson rushed to Washington to join Dr. Passmore in the precedent-making operation...
...hour), and electronic monitors that ring bells when trespassers plunge or fall in. Since a pool cover is probably the best idea, builders now offer a pushbutton elevator that rises out of the pool bottom until it decks over the pool as a play slab for parties. Unhappily, the gadget costs at least $1,500. Happily. $150 or so buys a polyethylene mesh cover that supports...
Physicians and surgeons have long used innumerable electrical gadgets in diagnosis and treatment, but they have usually kept the current outside the patient's body. Now they are developing new and daring ways to use electricity inside the body-and, in some cases, to make the electrical gadget a permanent implant with rechargeable batteries...