Word: techs
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Kessler also details another elaborate plan, in which high-tech devices were planted in the headrests of KGB cars. These would trigger sensors at specific intersections in Washington, allowing the bureau to keep track of KGB movements without recourse to machines that required replacement tapes or batteries. One car did not have a headrest, so agents planted the device in the glove compartment. When the car was brought in for a regular inspection, KGB mechanics found the bug and quickly inspected other vehicles for similar spy paraphernalia. By then the FBI had infiltrated 20 cars. The KGB removed every single...
Across the U.S., companies that offer security devices report booming sales in both low-tech paraphernalia (Mace, burglar bars, door alarms) and high-tech apparatus (video doorbells, motion-detection devices). Meanwhile, existing forms of high technology are being pressed into the services of security. Cellular phones are popular not only with businessmen but also with people who fear being stranded because of auto trouble or attacked while on the road. As their cost goes down, many are buying them for emergency use only...
...million Plant Stress Lab at Texas Tech University...
...Webb Smith (Wesley Snipes), newly assigned to Japanese liaison duty, is teamed with an enigmatic veteran, John Conner (Sean Connery), who some say was forever unhinged by a long stay in Japan. The ensuing investigation is blocked by an array of law-thwarting tactics, including seduction, murder and high-tech video sabotage...
...Free Willy is a clever movie toy for the kid market. Most of the time Willy is played by Keiko, a killer whale (actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed...