Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them out; transistors are hard to manufacture and are much in demand by the military. But last week Son-otone Corp. put on the market a partially "transistorized" hearing aid. Only one of its three miniature tubes has been replaced by a transistor, but Sonotone claims that the gadget "will give double the power of any comparable instrument, at half the operating cost...
...airport's instrument-landing radar is a gadget-lover's dream. Outside, it blossoms with dials, scopes and switches, and its insides are stuffed with wires and vacuum tubes that look like spaghetti sprinkled with caviar. It is such an expensive gadget that only big airports can get it. Last week Britain's Ekco Co. was telling about its "poor man's radar," designed for the pocketbook of the small-field manager...
...sports car fad, Los Angeles' Calnevar Co. brought out a "simulated wire wheel," a stainless-steel, spoked disk which can be snapped on in place of the conventional hubcap. Good for any U.S. car (except Studebaker, Lincoln and the Nash Ambassador), Calnevar's sporty gadget covers the entire wheel, looks like the real thing. Calnevar has orders for 50,000, expects to sell 250,000 in 1953. Price: $99.50 to $109.50 for a set of four (real wire wheels cost $300 extra a set). But the company may find the competition hot since half a dozen other companies...
...Meter Readings. It all began when Hubbard added an electrical gadget to his dianetic auditing-an "electropsychomeer" or "E-meter," something like a lie detector. The subject holds electrodes in his hands, and a dial needle records changes in current when he tells about deeply disturbing things in his past. Hubbard found that some of his subjects could not locate "painful prenatal experiences" anywhere on earth, but when he asked them whether these things had happened on another planet, the needle jumped like crazy...
...Right Combination. Mosler's most promising new idea is its "Snorkel Auto-Teller" for curbstone banking. A customer can drive up to the Snorkel, a gadget the size of a gas pump, do business with a clerk several feet below the sidewalk through a system of microphones, mirrors, and an elevator, without leaving...