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...Daffy Duck--ah, Daffy! Here was modern man (well, modern mallard) in all his epic scheming and human frustration. He would debate with Bugs on the time of year ("Rabbit season!" "Duck season!") before a shooting accident would require reconstructive plastic surgery. In the immortal Duck Amuck, Daffy valiantly attempts to keep the action on track while the hand of a conniving artist readjusts reality. Jones later said Bugs was the person he wished he could be and Daffy was the person he probably...
...conflict has taken on new dimensions. The catalyst for the current round of hostilities was the Feb. 14 bombing of an Israeli Merkava Mark 3 tank in the central Gaza Strip, which killed three Israeli soldiers. An Israeli official told TIME the bomb contained the high-density plastic explosive C-4, large amounts of which the Israelis believe are being smuggled into Gaza through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. "It's frightening to think that the next suicide bomber will have C-4 in his belt," says a senior Israeli security official. "The destruction will be far worse than...
...artificial visual system is called the Microsystem-based Visual Prosthesis (MIVIP) and was designed by Claude Veraart and collaborators at the University of Louvain. The MIVIP consists of a cuff electrode implanted around Marie's right optic nerve. The electrode wraps around the optic nerve like the little plastic sheath on the end of a shoelace. It is connected to a thin cable that snakes its way from the optic nerve exiting the back of Marie's eye and weaves around the outside of her brain to the stimulator implanted in a small cavity in her cranium. The stimulator, which...
These devices are permanently implanted inside Marie's skull, but to use them she must travel to a small room at the University of Louvain and don what looks like a badly damaged 1960s bathing cap. The cap is made of plastic and has a standard video camera affixed to its front. To use the MIVIP, Marie sits in front of a large white screen on which an alphabet of about 50 different line configurations is projected...
Trying to network at poorly lighted business functions--in nightclubs, at evening cookouts--can be a real drag if you can't tell who's who. Pc/nametag, a Madison, Wis., company that makes ID products for business meetings, thinks its GloTags are the solution. The reusable plastic tags are the size of a business card and are powered by lithium batteries. The tags come with special markers filled with erasable glow-in-the-dark ink. Just write on the faceplate, switch on the tag and project your name in lights. Pc/nametag can also customize the tags to feature corporate logos...