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...telephone slaves a Swiss robot now promises freedom. Its name: Ipsophone. This amazing, almost human instrument automatically answers phone calls, gives and takes messages, rebuffs unwanted callers with a busy signal, records long conversations, and faithfully plays back everything it has heard whenever its master chooses to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let It Ring! | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Numbers Game. Anytime he feels curious, the robot's master can get a complete report by dropping into a phone booth and calling up his Ipsophone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let It Ring! | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Perfumes of all kinds sold heavily everywhere. Parfums Weil Paris Co. neatly fell into the effervescent mood of shoppers by introducing a new scent called "GriGri." It was designed to "replace . . . the blockbuster and the robot bomb" with "a dash of the inconsequential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Fizz & Finery | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...robot went on strike in Paris. This civil servant, a machine that tells the time over the telephone, did not ask for more; it simply got stuck. Over & over it told Parisians that the time was 9:04 a.m., thereby made many late for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Strikes There, Too | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Traxler, is a conscientious Ph.D. who for the past nine years has been associated with the Educational Records Bureau, academic efficiency experts who think every school should get itself a Guidance Officer. His book was brimful of Guidance. By internal evidence, the Guidance Officer seemed to be a half-robot, half-notetaking middleman on the faculty. His impressive task: to make "each individual understand his abilities and interests . . . relate them to life goals, and finally to reach a state of mature self-guidance." His tools include a panoply of complicated forms and tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Science of Guidance | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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