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...point: at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, a nine-hectare mega-resort at the western end of Waikiki Beach, a 25-story tower opening in May will house a 3,900-sq-m spa and "wellness center." One of its main attractions: a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Tomography scanner, the first of its kind to be installed in a resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn't tanked with...
...uneven is exacerbated by the fact that the types of ballots and voting systems can vary widely from county to county. Some areas, such as now-infamous Palm Beach County, still use punch-card systems from the mid-1970s, while others have long since switched to more reliable optical scanner technologies. A standard system will encourage uniform procedures and heighten confidence in the outcome should manual recounts again be necessary...
General Electric 50,837 --Electric fan (1902) --X-ray tube (1913) --First U.S. jet engine (1941) --Solid-state laser (1962) --Computed tomography, a.k.a. CT scanner...
PASSWORD REPLACEMENT INVENTOR: BIOLINK Your brain is big, but it has better things to do than remember an eBay password. Thumbprints, however, have nothing to do--ever. So Biolink's U-Match Mouse comes with a thumb scanner and easy-to-install software that renders passwords obsolete. Up to 10 thumbprints can be held in memory at any time, and parents can limit the access of younger thumbs...
...comparison isn't that farfetched. By age 16, Kurzweil had built his first computer and sold software to IBM. His first major breakthrough, the Kurzweil Reading Machine, allowed blind people to read any document by simply feeding pages into an optical scanner that recognized characters. The computer then "spoke" the words aloud. In 1982, at the urging of Stevie Wonder, Kurzweil built what became the first synthesizer able to reproduce rich, orchestral sounds accurately; it is now widely used by pop musicians...