Word: gadgetized
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...ambitious effort to arrange a financially happy marriage between TV and Hollywood, Phonevision gives TV set owners a chance to order movies by telephone, at $1 each. Once the order is placed, a simple gadget attached to the TV set and connected to the home telephone unscrambles the movie on the TV screen. Hollywood collects its profit and the set owner is charged on his telephone bill. Last fall Hollywood released for the Chicago test more than 90 films made during the past three or four years...
American inventors, however, had cause to hang their heads in mortification. According to a news story out of London last week, an English colonel had invented the gadget which seemed most suited to the mood of the U.S.-a mechanical "morale raiser" which cried "Bravo! Well done! Good show!", clapped its owner on the back in a friendly way and burst into uproarious laughter when he told a joke...
Undergraduate opinion should perhaps be crystallized on permitting the inroads television has been making into student life. One housemaster seemed resigned. "Like any other gadget," he said, "TV is inevitable as the plague, and performing a useful function on occasions...
Last week Squadron 375 was sure it had the twilight problem pretty nearly licked. One gadget it has found useful is the Pfund† sky compass which polarizes light reflected from the sky-and points to the spot on the horizon directly above the invisible sun. When used with the proper tables, the sky compass gives the direction in which the plane is flying...
...never been arrested before," he said, as officers went through his pockets before putting him in a cell. "All this is pretty amazing." When the U.S. marshal held up an odd-looking tool he had been carrying, he explained: "That's the handiest gadget. It opens bottle tops and cans and things." He beamed as the marshal answered: "We'd better keep this pocket-sized machine shop. It might open a jail door, too." Before he was led away he said, approvingly: "It certainly is good to know the federal agents . . . and security officers are really on their...