Word: gizmo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...match the increasing speed of the industry. What really is the difference between a 200Mhz and 233Mhz processor? Not much (really, how fast can you cut and paste?). For the average user, the Joe and Jane Sixpacks, be not preoccupied with the hype over this or that new faster gizmo. Simply ask yourself, "What do I need...
...drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
...automation isn't just about the bottom line. As the market has ripened into a $7 billion-a-year industry, manufacturers are having more fun with their wares--from self-warming toilet seats to a "barking dog" device to scare prowlers. Now if only there were a gizmo that would serve breakfast...
...work in a 747's slipstream. The gun locker right near the press area? No way. But who knows--maybe an escape pod is in Bill Clinton's future. A White House aide is not entirely joking when he says the Air Force will want to install every gizmo portrayed in the movie "by the end of the week...
...more money than he will ever need but still keeps his tentacles in dozens of high-payoff projects. Insiders say he sounds a lot like Bill Joy, Sun's fiercely independent co-founder, who holes up in a research lab in Aspen, Colorado, developing consumer devices, including the interactive gizmo that helped spawn Java...