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When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Authentic Before Bouquet Card Companies Credit Credit Card Device Flowers Fragrance Genuinely Like More Number Online Pleasing Presence Produce Realize Sample Shop Subtle Surely Want Web Will Wines You Your

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As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Betting Cyberspace Experience Fully Out Totally Turn Will

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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Accurate Boil Cold Effects Environmental Excess Exclude Extreme Few First Fusion Heat Like Month Motion Next Penetrate Readings Require Slow Slow Motion Sufficient Take Temperature Then Two Watching Water Weeks

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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Audiences Depth Depths Experience Extreme Fitted Frame Lenses Movie New Normal Pay Perception Premium Rate Realism Runs Shown Signals Theaters Twice Via Viewers Wear Which Willing

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If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

~Charles Platt

Topics: Crude Enhancement Follow Genuine Novelty Odor Path Similar Smart Sophisticated Technology Transform Visual Why

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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Become Businesses Changed City Landscape Net Past People Transactions

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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Any Breed Broadband Changes Destroy Egalitarian Environment Era Everyone Generation Half Inflict Innovation Internet Knows Like Major New New Generation Once Online Only Services Story Vision Will

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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.

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Topics: Continuous Definition Depends Economy Energy

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Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Above Both Cable Companies Computer Even Home Internet Item Luxury Networks Now Offices Once Online Phone Power Protecting Providers Service Standard Supply Tv Ups

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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Batteries Brought Earth Expense Finally Fitted Five International Just Lifetime Literally Requiring Several Space Space Station Spares Special Station Tons Total Up Weighing Will Years

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: May 9th, 1945

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