Word: handhelds
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...Ramsey is perhaps best known for his workthat contributed to the creation of a technologyknown as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Withvast military and lay applications, GPS allowspeople to pinpoint their geographic location witha small handheld device...
...Ramsey is perhaps best known for his work that contributed to the creation of a technology known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). With vast military and lay applications, GPS allows people to pinpoint their geographic location with a small handheld device...
...doesn't seem to be enough. Hot on the news that Pat Robertson and pals are embarking on a three- year, $7 million advertising blitz for a modern translation of the Bible called The Book comes word that Johnny Cash recorded more than 400 scripture passages for a handheld electronic Bible. Makers of the Good Book have discovered niche marketing and it is good. There are Bibles for women, recovering addicts, children and Promise Keepers. There are Bibles with such names as The Rock and WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?). There are even Bibles for the hip: slim volumes...
BETTER THAN A BIOPSY The FDA has approved a handheld imaging device that can help doctors decide whether to perform a biopsy when the results of a mammogram are ambiguous. The device, called T-Scan 2000, sends a tiny jolt of electricity to suspicious breast tissue; potentially malignant cells conduct electricity differently than normal cells do. T-Scan is not meant to replace a mammogram, but it may prevent some 200,000 unnecessary biopsies a year...
Like so many photographers of his day, and not just of his day, Brassai occasionally posed some of the people in pictures that look at first glance like candids. By the 1930s, photographers like Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson had begun to use the new 35-mm handheld Leicas, equipment that could capture fast movement. Brassai persisted in working with a Voigtlander Bergheil. A camera that used small glass plates instead of film--Brassai would eventually adapt it for conventional film--it required a tripod and long exposures. That in turn meant that his subjects usually knew they were...