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...designed for pedestrian use and will consist of pocket phones so small they can be folded up like a wallet to the size of a pack of cigarettes. They can be smaller and less expensive than conventional cellular phones because they need to be powerful enough only to transmit to one of hundreds of receiving stations located throughout the local cable network. The user could thus bypass the local phone company, which makes the PCN system a threat to the Baby Bells' local monopoly. Last week Cox scored an industry first by becoming the first cable system to test-market...
...have a close encounter with an asteroid. But pictures of the mysterious planetary fragment, called Gaspra, are unavailable because Galileo's main antenna for sending out images is frozen in the wrong position. Not until 1992, when Galileo swings back by Earth, can smaller antennas on the craft successfully transmit the missing pictures. The frustrating delay makes scientists all the more grateful for Magellan's reliable -- and revealing -- signals from Venus...
...known as the hippocampus. To file them away permanently, the hippocampus shunts the elements of the experience -- the sounds, smells and sights -- through a network of nerve cells to different areas of the brain. "It's a whole cascade of processes, physiological and chemical, that sensitizes the neurons to transmit messages," notes Mortimer Mishkin, chief of the neuropsychology laboratory of the National Institutes of Health. The proper stimulus, say, a whiff of a perfume or a glimpse of a familiar place, trips the relay, firing the neurons and bringing a past event to consciousness...
...network system, which may be operational by the end of this year, will be able to transmit up to 30 times more information than the current system, Law said...
Other, more exotic technologies have produced disappointment as well. Videoconferencing has largely flopped as a substitute for business travel because costly systems -- they range up to $20,000 in price -- have failed to transmit clear, crisp images and audio signals. Users complain that they are prevented from swapping notes and documents and cannot ensure privacy. They grouse about having to leave their offices and miss phone calls to use the special rooms set up for videoconferencing...