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Last December, my brother came up with a brilliant gift idea. I think he found it in a Sharper Image catalog. It was similar to the Fly Gun, but a little more technologically advanced. It was the Fly Gun of the Nineties: a "Bug Vac...
Beverly Pepper--MIT List VAC through July...
...Tiger Vac," as they call it, holds a small, relatively simple computer in its body which takes signals from the main computer--in this case, the Apple "Mackintosh"--and translates them into actual movements...
Building the "Tiger Vac", also known as a "programmable mobile platform," involved the intricate and lengthy construction of separate components, which ultimately were placed on the robot's main structure. The students did most of the building in conjuction with a Physics 123 course they were taking...
...standard-size vacuum cleaner, squatting in countless American closets, is a veritable symbol of drudgery. But now there is a little vac hanging on the wall, designed just to clean up the spilled potting soil and the scattered cat litter. It is the Dustbuster, and its phenomenal success is dramatically changing the fortunes of its maker, Black & Decker...