Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People bothered by noise may get some relief through electronics. In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Harry F. Olson and Everett G. May of Radio Corporation of America tell about a gadget that reaches out to kill sound waves before they...
...Corp.'s Phonevision, now awaiting an FCC decision, originally used a special unscrambling signal transmitted to the set via a telephone-line attachment, and depended on the phone company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate methods. One uses the coin box; another uses a gadget which would unscramble the TV picture when set to the right combination. Cards with the combination would be sold for each show by dealers or vending machines. Skia-tron Electronics & Television Corp.'s Subscriber-Vision works by means of punched decoding cards inserted into a device...
...last winter performed for an unprecedented twelve weeks in Manhattan, that routed out some 4,000 Angelenos a night for a month last summer. It had already made three visits to Europe, leaving such cities as London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Milan and Barcelona with the notion that the gadget-happy Americans might have a culture bump, after...
Revolution to Come. "Is Churchill imperialistic?" a reporter asked. Said Nye: "Churchill has nothing at all left but the desire to hang on." What about Russia? "They have failed to produce a happy society," said Nye. "What did they achieve? They have become as much gadget monkeys as the Americans." And what did he think of Egypt's revolution? "There's no revolution," said he firmly. "What happened was a coup d'état with a revolutionary façade. The revolution has still to come...
...Neuromuscular television" was the name given by Chicago's Dr. Edmund Jacobson to a gadget for helping heart patients to relax. The tension in a patient's muscles and nerves is projected on a screen so that he can see the effect of his efforts to relax...