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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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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