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...been another hot year for consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
...take their healing arts out of the hospital and onto the road. The result: fully functional EKG machines no bigger than a box of chocolates; blood-sample analyzers no larger than a princess phone; portable ultrasound machines that fit in the trunk of a car. There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a paperback-size automatic defibrillator that can shock a stopped heart back into a normal rhythm...
...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...
...secretive Washington-area facility to use a computer, the duplicitous father figure who must be killed) but with more brio. It also boasts some of the genre's standard idiocies. The script, by Tony Puryear, Walon Green and Michael S. Chernuchin, dreams up a new era of hand-held weaponry: a heat-seeking assault rifle. But the bad guys can't shoot straight enough with these can't-miss guns to hit either star. When they are on target, they often kill one another...
...instead of simply continuing with the lecture when a problem is done, Mazur asks students to key in their answers on hand-held consoles at their seats. If there is a wide range in the answers, he asks them to consult among themselves and try again. After a few minutes, the responses tend to zero in on the right answer...