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...those who would rather sink than swim, Frankfurt Engineer Hanns Trippel has produced a one-man submarine which was the hit of the recent West Berlin In ternational Boat Show. Made of a glass-silk polyester, the U24 weighs only 485 Ibs., and its four six-volt batteries drive it at about five knots on the surface, slightly faster under water. The U24 can dive as deep as 98 ft., is equipped with an oxygen supply and an air-washing system that allows submersion for eight hours at a time. Dealer Erich Mylius of Hamburg reports more than 500 orders...
...completed by notations of the guest's preferences in accommodations, flowers and liquor. The lady who "can't stand green" is kept in rose. Because RCA's General Sarnoff prefers Suite 486 in a wing of the hotel that is not air-conditioned, special 220-volt lines are run to the room, air-conditioner installed, along with (naturally) an RCA color television set. Shell Oil Co.'s Director H.S.M. Burns likes "Wild Turkey" bourbon, finds a fifth of it waiting for him when he arrives. Commander Whitehead, besides a gross or two of Schweppes, is also...
...invented 15 years ago by "Brilliant" and "Diet Smith") has saved Dick Tracy from many a nasty comic-strip scrape. Cartoonist Chester Gould now plans to move the contraption off the drawing board and onto the wrists of Tracy fans everywhere. The radio comes in two pieces-a 9-volt power pack with aerial that hooks onto the wearer's belt, and a receiver-microphone for the wrist-and permits its owner to send messages up to 700 ft. Price for a single unit: about...
...Alarm Clock. When Hunt and crew had a rat sleeping peacefully, they recorded its heartbeats on an electrocardiograph (300-350 beats per min.). Then they squirted it with a beam of silent, invisible, 250,000-volt X rays. In about 12 sec., the rat woke up, sometimes going into a violent "state of alarm." Its heartbeat would speed up too. But if the radiation continued for long, the rat would go to sleep again, like a human grown accustomed to a steady night-time sound...
...portable refrigerator, which will operate equally well on 1) 12-volt auto or boat batteries, 2) standard no-volt house current, 3) bottled gas. The Escort Mark II refrigerator, made by the Selectra Corp., Buffalo, weighs less than 30 Ibs., takes up little more room than a suitcase, keeps up to 35 Ibs. of food and drink chilled on even the longest trips. Price...