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Even that didn't defenestrate Capps. Version 1 failures only juice him. An inveterate inventor whose house in the foothills of San Carlos, California, is filled with homemade toys such as the Jaminator--a plastic guitar that permits users to jam, in key, with rock tunes etched into silicon chips--Capps thrives on the multi-iterated quest for perfection. "There's nothing better than doing version 2," he says, "and being able to go back and fix all your mistakes." No, what finally drove Capps out the door was Apple's inability to stay relevant, to reorient itself around...
...Testing System," a pre-packaged set of plastic tubes and a urine sample cup has won FDA approval as the first drug-testing kit for home use. Translation: parental use. While the $30 device, expected in the stores in about six weeks, may never "empower the individual citizen," as inventor Dr. Theodore Brown promises, its ability to detect cocaine, heroin, marijuana, PCP, amphetamines and morphine with a mail-in urine sample is bound to spark a storm of controversy. Customers need only place a urine sample in a plastic package included with the kit, mail it in to a government...
Proselytizing via these handwrought manuscripts was not an easy task. The Bibles were rare, fragile and generally came in one flavor: Latin. The problems didn't go away until the mid-1400s, when a German inventor named Johann Gutenberg wheeled his movable-type press out of its secret hiding place and into history...
...Wallace & Gromit $25; BBC/CBS Fox video; all ages Strictly speaking, this boxed set isn't a toy. But on a rainy day or when a child is sick, each video is 30 min. of delightful distraction. Wallace is a flatheaded, cheese-loving inventor, Gromit is his genius dog (he knits, he paints, he outwits evil penguins!). They (and creator Nick Park) have won an armful of awards, including two Oscars...
DIED. GEORGE OSLIN, 97, inventor in 1933 of the singing telegram; in Delray Beach, Florida. As the public relations director for Western Union, Oslin sent the first singing telegram to crooner Rudy Vallee on the singer's birthday. Today Western Union delivers singing telegrams by telephone--sung only to the tune of Happy Birthday...