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  1. Air Slot Heating

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    100
    NoS ID
    329498
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Nozzles in the skirting board are the key to a new form of central heating which aims to keep your feet warm as well as your head. A strange physical phenomenon, the ‘Coander Effect’, keeps...

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  2. Dynascope

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    100
    NoS ID
    329499
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A high powered microscope, yet there’s no peering into tiny eyepieces. The designer got the idea for his cinemascope microscope from gazing, not into a crystal ball, but into a ball bearing.

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  3. Windak Limpet

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    107
    NoS ID
    325469
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: A new aid for divers. It’s a small water operated suction pad which clings to any surface curved or flat above or below water, providing a convenient hand-hold wherever the diver needs it.

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  4. Daunomycin

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    107
    NoS ID
    325470
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: A new anti-biotic which distorts the double spiral of virus DNA and so prevents multiplication of cancerous cells. Already being used to treat some forms of leukaemia and solid tumours, it’s...

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  5. Total Mobility Tyre

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    107
    NoS ID
    325471
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Dangers from high-speed blow-outs are minimised with a new tyre which allows drivers to keep control of their cars even after a blow-out at high speeds, and the tyre can be driven on for up to...

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  6. Fabric Crayon Dyes

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    107
    NoS ID
    325472
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A do-it-yourself item for the fashion conscious. It’s a simple way of getting your own colourful designs onto shirts and blouses.

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  7. Scanmaster

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    110
    NoS ID
    325480
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Designs into stitches. Scanmaster is a knitting machine which produces patterned garments in four colours automatically at one end from a design painted on squared paper fed in at the other.

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  8. Photomutations

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    110
    NoS ID
    325481
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Accidents into designs. Photographer Bob Loosemore noticed that the chemicals used in photographic development could produce interesting colours and patterns if they happened to be in the wrong...

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  9. Wild Oats

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    110
    NoS ID
    325482
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: The poisoned handshake. Farmers rogueing wild oats from their fields now use a special glove which squeezes herbicide onto the weed without affecting the rest of the crop.

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  10. Scanmaster

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    110
    NoS ID
    329530
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Designs into stitches. Scanmaster is a knitting machine which produces patterned garments in four colours automatically at one end from a design painted on squared paper fed in at the other.

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