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  1. Froggies

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    224
    NoS ID
    325938
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: After foot flippers for swimmers, now webbing between the fingers! This new swimming aid doubles the span of children’s hands and offers the swimmer extra propulsion.

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  2. Seed Soak Test

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    220
    NoS ID
    325925
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: A new test for the viability of seeds that depends, simply, on measuring the conductivity of water the seeds have been soaked in.

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  3. Smokeless Flares

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    220
    NoS ID
    325924
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: New burners that can flare-off vast amounts of high pressure gas from oil fields, completely smokelessly and safely when emergencies require it.

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  4. Magnetic Mover

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    224
    NoS ID
    325939
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Reducing the tedious tasks which can involve man throughout his working life: a new and extremely simple robot. A magnet pneumatically propelled along a tube, a magnetic carriage rolling along...

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  5. Extending Our Vision: Video Mind

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    221
    NoS ID
    325928
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: A new device translates a live TV picture into a mass of numbers, each representing a shade of black or white. The picture is now in suitable digital form for a computer to analyse - the...

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  6. Breath Monitor

    Date released
    1979
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    245
    NoS ID
    326004
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Traditionally, nurses wanting to check a young baby’s breathing did so by feeling the slight movements of the abdomen. This can now be done continuously and remotely by a simple monitor,...

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  7. All The Time Insulin

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    224
    NoS ID
    325941
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: For six months, day and night, a diabetic has volunteered to wear a harness containing a small box. It will feed him his daily allowance of insulin in a steady continuous trickle, replacing...

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  8. Gas Whistle

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    224
    NoS ID
    325940
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: British composer David Bedford demonstrates to a girls’ choir how they can increase the range of their voices by more than an octave. The secret: a lung full of helium; the pitch of a note...

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  9. Piling High

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    220
    NoS ID
    352318
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: Piles - giant steel girders forced deep into the ground - have until now been manoeuvred into place by hand - a highly dangerous procedure. A compact new device now allows the piles to be...

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  10. Tennis Umpire

    Date released
    1980
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    252
    NoS ID
    326025
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: At last - an end to the tantrums and fights on the tennis courts over linesman’s calls. An electronic device that never gets it wrong: nor does it nod off to sleep. Invisible beams from it...

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