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FEMTOSECOND LASERS. Like strobes flickering across a submicroscopic dance floor, these devices can freeze the gyrations of atoms and molecules with flashes of light. The lasers are being used to study everything from how sodium joins with other atoms to form salts to how plants convert sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis. Physicists from California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory reported that they used such a laser to take a "snapshot" of the chemical reaction that is the first step in visual perception. This reaction, triggered when light hits the retina of the eye, had never before been directly...
...first tools to go high-tech were top-of-the-line industrial workhorses: saws with electric brakes that "knew" when to stop; routers with electronic feedback to control their cutting speeds; laser-guided graders that raised or lowered themselves automatically and could make the bumpiest construction sites as level as a putting green...
...film in television history. One recent sighting came in October, on the NBC special Funny Women of Television. It got a vigorous workout during all those TV tributes to Lucille Ball following her death in April 1989. It is one of two episodes reprised in full on a laser disc released by the Criterion Collection to commemorate the show's 40th anniversary. And, of course, on any given day it is probably being shown on some local station somewhere, part of the endlessly renewable cycle of I Love Lucy reruns...
...know about Elvis, but Walter Mitty lives. You can find him poised atop a 7-ft. platform swinging a big stick at a muscle-bound giant with a name like Laser or Nitro. Or swooping through the air on a bungee cord 15 ft. above the ground, trying to master a kind of aerial basketball. Sound like Mitty's fantasies have got a little outrageous? Obviously, you haven't seen American Gladiators, the syndicated television show on which ordinary, albeit very physically fit, people compete in athletic events against a squad of professional male and female athletes and body builders...
...that most certainly needs a catchier moniker -- that encompasses a variety of systems for bringing information, music, voice, animation, photos and video images together on a screen in people's living rooms and workplaces. Multimedia represents the coalescence of three key communications technologies: television, personal computers and laser storage systems like the videodisc and the compact disc. These technologies are on a collision course, say multimedia enthusiasts, and when they merge, life as we know it will never be the same...