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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The new cameras are full of advanced engineering. Like many popular "point- and-click" models, each boasts functions that used to require manual operation but are now automatic: exposure control, focus, flash, loading, winding and film-speed setting. To these have been added some new twists, including infrared beams for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Zoom! Click! (Compute) Shoot! | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Of the three models, the Olympus SuperZoom makes what are perhaps the most impressive technological leaps. To keep its weight and cost down, the camera uses a separate viewing window rather than the so-called single-lens reflex design adopted by Yashica and Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Zoom! Click! (Compute) Shoot! | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Picture phones have been just around the corner for 30 years. Now they are finally starting to appear in U.S. homes and offices. Since last fall, Mitsubishi Electric of America has sold 64,000 of its new VisiTel units, a $400 device that looks like a TV with a 4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Reach Out and See Someone | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

-- The senses flag. Taste diminishes as the nose loses its sense of smell (odor accounts for about 80% of overall flavor sensation). The loss of taste can lead to lack of appetite and sometimes to serious nutritional deficiencies. Hearing fades, particularly in the high-frequency range, and processing of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Older - But Coming on Strong | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Since there are no immediate plans to excavate the ship, the scientists resealed the entrance hole after meticulously filming every inch of the chamber for later study and mapping. Using a special zoom lens, they filmed everything from the markings on the walls to the lengths of the boat's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Probing The Chambers of Cheops | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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