Word: laser
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...years ago, Logitech introduced laser technology as the standard for reliable cordless mice, and its competitors scrambled to follow suit. The MX Revolution reveals three impressive new features which will no doubt be copied in years to come...
Another innovation at the VA was a bar-code system, as in the supermarket, for prescriptions--a system used in fewer than 5% of private hospitals. With a hand-held laser reader, a nurse scans the bar code on a patient's wristband, then the one on the bottle of pills. If the pills don't match the prescription the doctor typed into the computer, the laptop alerts the nurse. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million patients are harmed each year by medication errors, but computer records and bar-code scanners have virtually eliminated those problems...
...said James Fuller, President of Brookview Tech. The company's website explains that the images on the screen are strategically projected from behind, "and then directed towards the observer by thousands of holographic optical elements" that are "stored on a photographic film, which has been specially processed with laser...
...told the guys, 'We've got to think out of the box,'" NAC director Dennis Wend told Difflock magazine. "So, we sat down and studied those old movies. They got a lot of ideas from them." The SmarTruck features high voltage door handles, laser guns, a grenade launcher, a pepper spray canister with a six-foot range, and special super-bright headlights that disorient anyone outside. The vehicle also comes equipped with night vision and is surrounded by cameras that allow those inside to see a 360-degree panorama of their surroundings. The cameras, doors, windows, cell phone and radio...
...wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser beam and pulled the trigger, sending a 6-lb. practice shell 1,000 yds. directly to its mark. "I loved it!" exclaimed Thatcher. Peking Jan. 6, 1986 Life is getting better, fast, for many Chinese. Industrial production has leaped along with food output. Early in 1985 it was increasing...