Word: screening
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...need only enter the Emergency Housing Consortium's homeless shelter in San Jose, Calif., on a school night. Walk past the guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed guys slumped in front of a tiny TV screen filled with colored snow. Just as your heart starts to sag with despair for the human condition, though, stop and take a peek through the locked door on the right. The contrast couldn't be starker. You see a brilliant white computer lab with state-of-the-art PCs and a massive...
...digital camera like no other. The fruit of his cogitations is about the size of a videocassette and weighs in at just over a pound. But the genius of the RDC-i700 camera is revealed as its top flips up to display a bright, 3.5-in. touch-sensitive screen--a window on the World Wide Web that surfs the Internet, records voice memos, accepts scribbled notes and drawings in 16 different colors and receives and sends e-mail...
...tests, TIME's editors were able to upload a low-resolution image to a website in about a minute simply by selecting the desired image onscreen, then hitting a few more buttons to send it through the ether. Skeptical at first about browsing the Web on a screen the size of a drink coaster, we were pleasantly surprised at how easy it was both to enter Web addresses and write e-mail with the slim gray plastic stylus included with the camera...
...bucks, could make them moot. Tests show that WaveZorb, adapted from military use, soaks up nearly 99% of microwave radiation--and doesn't interfere with performance. Each adhesive-backed unit lasts about six months and can be trimmed to fit any cell-phone earpiece. Too bad it can't screen calls as effectively...
When the lights came back on, so did Mahaffey's television. Lo and behold, right there on the screen was an ad with a toll-free number for Invention Submission Corp., the nation's largest patent broker and promotion company. He picked up the phone and dialed...