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Before dealing with the core, though, scientists had to understand the intervening mantle, through which all seismic information has to pass on its way to the surface. Explains Dziewonski: "If it's a faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey to The Earth's Core | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

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 »

An even more striking feature of the Olympus is its "auto zooming portrait mode." The user simply selects the proper setting on the camera's control panel, points and clicks. The lens will zoom in or out to ensure that the subject's head and shoulders are well framed in...

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 »

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