Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McDonald has FCC permission to make a three-month test in Chicago this fall of Phonevision (TIME, May 1). His gadget, inexpensively hooked onto a TV set, would enable the home viewer to order movies by telephone, at $1 each, for his living-room screen. The fee, charged on the monthly phone bill, would be split among the movie producer, the TV station and the phone company...
...gadget" really works, as can be substantiated by incontrovertible evidence...
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
Additional equipment will allow George to make the actual touchdown. One gadget, for use with ILS, is a sensitive altimeter that tells George when the airplane is close to the ground. Then George flattens the approach angle so that the touchdown will be gentle. With the GCA system, a special short-range radar does much the same thing, guiding the plane with extra precision just before it hits the runway...
Undaunted, the defense sent a parade of satisfied Magic Spike customers to the stand. One man testified that a Magic Spike had cured his dachshund, Hector, of paralysis of the hindquarters. He also declared that until he bought the gadget in 1939, he himself had been short of breath and unable to walk against the wind. After he got the spike, he said, he walked against the wind fine. Another witness testified that a Magic Spike not only cured his arthritis but also made his wife's violets blossom three times better than normal. Another man simply told...