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...small entrepreneurial firms. Filled with stuffing and wiring, these toys can speak, after a fashion, with their owners. The most popular is Teddy Ruxpin ($60 to $80), a 20-in. bear whose eyes and mouth move when it speaks from a recorded cassette. Ruxpin's voice comes from a tape player in its back. The manufacturer, Silicon Valley's Worlds of Wonder, will ship as many as 750,000 by Christmas but still cannot meet demand. Says Stewart Brown, manager of an F.A.O. Schwarz shop in Atlanta: "People keep requesting it, maybe 20 times a day, but I haven...
Currently, says Lozano-Perez, industrial robots are no more than sophisticated "tape recorders." They are programmed by experts who lead their mechanical arms through, the motions of a particular task. The robots store this sequence of movements in their memories and can later repeat it an unlimited number of times...
Brooks P. Hanson, '87, editor of Padan Aram, a Harvard literary magazine, and Nick Davis '87, former president of the improvisational theater company On Thin lee, are creating a novel on tape. Their work, 'Boone," is an oral biography of a fictitious intellectual called Boone. Hanson and Davis have gotten together 40 Harvard actors to assume the 55 roles of Boone's life acquaintances. Hansen calls their work "the execution of a novel...
...answer is a token-ring network, named for electronic signals called tokens that race constantly through the system. IBM compares the token to a tape recorder being passed around a giant conference table. Users leave a message on the token and send it along to the person to whom the information is addressed. To connect with IBM's system, users need special software and an extra circuit board that goes into the machine...
Humphrey has been less than cooperative with would-be rescuers. He has outmaneuvered tugboats that tried to herd him, and disdained efforts to lure him toward salt water with tape recordings of his breed's distinctive sounds. Towing, says Ferrari, "has always been disastrous. We could drown him or tangle him." Though fresh water will inevitably wear down the oceangoing creature, optimistic experts predict the whale can survive for more than two weeks in the brackish tides of the delta. That gives Humphrey's helpers the slim hope that with time to reconsider his position, he will find...