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Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
...Fairbanks' gadget, which consists chiefly of a microphone, a tape-recorder and a playback amplifier, delays the reports on their way to the brain. Normally a speaker hears each syllable about a thousandth of a second after he has spoken it. By adjusting his apparatus to introduce delay, Dr. Fairbanks can lengthen this interval as much as he wants to. He can also make the sounds from the amplifier so loud that they drown out the sounds that reach the brain through the normal channels...
This year, the board decided to spend five times as much on such prizes as a tape recorder, a portable playback, a 16-mm. projector, an AM-FM radio receiver, books for the school library. Last week, the board announced that in the first four months of 1948, broken windows had dropped another thousand...
...prevent snooping by casual callers, the playback can be controlled by setting a code number in the machine before leaving. When you call from outside, after the Ipsophone has announced itself, you say firmly: "Hello, hello." The Ipsophone then switches to another track and slowly reels off a series of numbers; after each number in the code you repeat, "Hello, hello." If you get the combination right, the Ipsophone plays back the messages; if not, it emits a derisive busy signal. After hearing all the messages, you wait for a sign-off buzz, then pronounce, "Erase, Erase," and the record...
...even unbreakable plastic may soon find itself dated. Reason: recording on magnetized wire, used extensively during the war, has now been developed to a point where it is commercially practical. A wire recording and playback machine which will sell for $300 will be put on the market by the Utah Radio Products Co. of Chicago by Dec. 1. The spool of wire is long enough (11,200 ft.) to play for 60 minutes. It will play the same recording an indefinite number of times, or the recording can be "erased" after one playing and another made. Handiest feature: a clock...