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...arrived, this manager switches to falsetto, pretending to be a secretary, while he gets Federal Express on the other line to run an instant trace on the goods. (Did you know they could do that?) FedEx spoofs executive puffery while showing business customers everywhere that thanks to those little hand-held computers carried by its staff, it always knows precisely where every package...
...spots abound in the buildings and equipment around Chernobyl. A disabled bulldozer sets off alarms on hand-held radiometers, showing 10 times the internationally accepted exposure level for nuclear-power workers. The big Mi- 8 helicopters that were used to drop sand into the blazing reactor in 1986 -- collecting such heavy radiation that some pilots died -- rest in a field along with hundreds of contaminated trucks and armored personnel carriers, many stripped of engines and electronic gear. The radiation is not enough to cause immediate illness, but looters are taking long-term risks. Health officials estimate that 10,000 deaths...
...robot played a key role in a total-hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
...hand-held security device, which will be offered at the Harvard Coop beginning Monday, makes a would-be attacker look like a Chia pet, according to the product's Boston distributor...
...weapons of the future will look like they came straight out of Star Wars or RoboCop: everything from hand-held laser swords to autonomous robots programmed to kill. The long-term trend, as demonstrated in the Persian Gulf last year, is toward short battles conducted at long distance by increasingly intelligent machines. Defense experts predict that the next arms race will be to develop the smartest, stealthiest and most accurate weapons and to demonstrate their superiority convincingly enough in advance to avoid risking lives and expensive hardware on the battlefield...