Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...newfangled, Web-ready products ranging from TVs and cell phones to dashboards and Palm Pilots. "You'll have the Internet in your pocket, anytime, anywhere," says Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft's v.p. of user-interface platforms, of tomorrow's wireless and handheld devices. Most of them will be too small to have a keyboard. "The only way you're ever going to get lots of data into small devices," says Dragon Systems founder Janet Baker, "is by talking to them...
...kind of a flimsy structure," says Nutt, co-founder of CTI, the Knoxville, Tenn., imaging company that is gearing up to produce the new scanning combine. "If you lay it on the bed one time for a CT scan and another time for a PET scan, just a small difference in body position will result in all of the organs shifting about a bit, so it's very difficult to do that matching...
...shows that a lymph node is less than one centimeter in size, it is considered to be normal. But on the PET/CT, Meltzer says, "we saw a very small lymph node in the right side of the neck that we thought was involved with the tumor." A biopsy that otherwise would not have been performed confirmed her suspicion...
...NONRECALCITRANT TOASTER: Somebody soon is bound to smash the worldwide small-household-appliance cartel's plot to foist $50 toasters built with 10[cent] engineering on a groggy breakfast-time America. The prospect of a toaster that quickly pops up perfect golden-brown slices every time is to be dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE...
...rest, as they say, is history. Johnson, a small-town prodigy called the Professor by his high school buddies, had wrought one of the best-selling toys ever: the Super Soaker, a pump-action water gun capable of streaming water 50 feet. In the 12 years since he first got U.S. Patent No. 4,591,071 for the "squirt gun," as it is listed in official government records, more than 200 million Super Soakers have been sold. Revenue estimates for the gun range as high as $400 million. "Lonnie is the American success story," says Dick Apley, director of independent...