Word: gizmos
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...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...
Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...much education as possible. Never mind the tales of college graduates working as bellboys -- even though such stories are true. On no opinion are the experts so unanimous as that the future belongs to the knowledge worker, master of his PC, fiber-optics whatsit, E-mail gizmo and whatever takes its place. One of the best windows into the future is supplied by an Austin, Texas, company with the rather dull name of Applied Materials Inc. Its founders set out quite deliberately to build a manufacturing facility for the 21st century, and since 1991 they have become the world...