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...video games. Though a glut of games flattened the market two years ago, Japan's Nintendo has revived the market with souped-up graphics and sound that have lured players back to their screens. Nintendo's deluxe set ($139) includes a control deck that plugs into a television, two hand-held push- button devices, a ten-inch robot that reacts to commands through photosensors behind its eyes and a light-sensing video gun. As the battle rages, players can fire not only at the screen but at the robot as well. Video addicts are apparently hooked. Nintendo expects to triple...
Devices are being designed that will allow fitness-conscious Americans to take precise readings on their own. This spring Futrex, in Gaithersburg, Md., plans to introduce a hand-held computerized analyzer. Borrowing technology developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the nutritional content of meat and grain, the device beams near infrared light on the arm. As the light passes through the flesh, fat absorbs specific wavelengths; light emitted through the skin is then picked up by a detector. The computer translates the information into percent body fat. Cost of the device: around...
...chosen stocks. But the more active individuals are finding their own tools and tricks. They now cut the cost of commissions by ordering through discount brokers, follow obscure companies through a growing number of newsletters, keep their holdings in convenient cash-management accounts and even get stock quotations through hand-held radio receivers...
...capabilities of the professionals. Schwab sells its customers a personal-computer program called The Equalizer (price: $99.95), which enables an investor to keep track of a portfolio, place an order and call up stock-price quotes, research reports and financial news. Telemet America, one of the several firms offering hand-held devices for monitoring stock quotes, now serves 16 cities and 10,000 customers, 90% of whom are private investors...
...shows have proved so much. From the start, Hill Street's gritty, teeming visual style (created in part by shooting with hand-held cameras) set ) it apart from anything else on TV. Its cops were not macho superheroes but flawed men and women with interesting lives both on and off the beat. The show's dramatic structure (copied by such successors as St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law) was unusually complex, interweaving a dozen or so major characters and several ongoing plots each week. If the comic interludes were often heavy- handed and the drama sometimes soapy, Hill Street nevertheless defined...