Notice the teeny tiny text on the bottom of the page: “The Videocorder is not to be used to record copyrighted materials.”.
Even in 1967 Sony was worried about getting sued for people pointing their video camera at the TV.

How to make a scene
(that everybody will love you for)

It’s as simple as A, B, C to enjoy this year’s most enjoyable product, the home video tape recorder. You can produce instant movies in sound of memorable family events. Tape TV programs off the air. The compact, low cost Sony Videocorder® has hundreds of uses in business and education. Read the rest of this entry »

TENT CITY ON HOTEL ROOF IN SAN DIEGO, CALIF.
An unusual method of coining dollars from the waste space on the roof of a building is shown in this view of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego, where about twenty tents have been pitched far above the city. The view is fine, the air good, and as the elevator and other hotel service is at hand, the guests enjoy camp life and city advantages together. The proprietor receives a good rate for these quarters, so that the novel idea is beneficial all around.

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SUPER-SPEED X-RAY

IT costs a million dollars a second to operate this X-ray machine – which is cheap.

A MACHINE whose operation actually costs $1,000,000 a second may sound like a mad inventor’s dream come true, yet few more practical or economical devices have ever appeared in the field of scientific research than the new 360,000-volt ultra -high-speed X-ray machine developed by Dr. Charles M. Slack and his colleagues at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Read the rest of this entry »

This would be awesome in one of those iPod dancing silhouette ads.

Headwork in the Garden

THE chic hat Paul Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., wears while gardening may not keep off the iun, but it will bring in all local radio stations. The one-tube radio headset operates on two dry cells to enable him to keep up with his favorite programs while doing outdoor chores.

What is your S.Q.*?

*Sex Quotient by Mark Tarail. B.A.. M.S.

BY taking this test, you can measure your sex knowledge. Check whether the answers to each statement should be Yes or No. Compare your answers with the correct answers below. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer and add the results. Your final score is your S.Q.

A score of less than 50 indicates inadequate knowledge; 50 to 60 equals good; 70 or 80 equals excellent; 90 or above equals unusually superior.
(YES) (NO) 1. Are most sex offenders prone to violence?
(YES) (NO) 2. Should self-gratification in children be forcibly prevented? Read the rest of this entry »

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Readers Suggest Some New Car Designs

FREIGHT space, refrigerated bodies, and enough heft to roll over in a crash and come up running, are what the designers of these automotive candidates in S&M’s Better Car Design series want in their cars. Yet plainly they want them in a variety of shapes and sizes.

With this installment, Science and Mechanics continues the series on reader car designs inaugurated with the simply conceived Shay 150 (Aug. ’56 S&M) and carried on with the unorthodox Chemobile (Oct., ’56 S&M).
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LIGHT THAT BENDS
AN AMAZING new optical instrument now being developed at the Imperial College of Science at London, England, is the Fibrescope. When completed, this device will enable doctors to search inside the human body, physicists to watch radioactive material from the other side of lead walls and engineers to examine hidden parts of complicated machinery.
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They really want you to know that the guy in the first story is a hippy, don’t they?
What do you guys think about the watch ad on the third page? It seems like a scam to me. Helps if I actually read the article.

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RENT-a-LAUGH

By Franklynn Peterson

Funny things happen on the way to renting cars, but Hertz doesn’t always laugh.

The hippy drove his rented car back to the agency garage late one Sunday and, like man, did he have a complaint. His fold-up bed was in the trunk and he couldn’t get the trunk unlocked. The renting agent had a gripe, too—he also wanted the trunk open. Sunday is not the best time to go looking for a trunk-lock specialist in New York City, especially half an hour before the garage locks up and the cars turn into pumpkins. And this was one hippy who didn’t dig the thought of parking his beard on the floor for a long winter’s nap. Read the rest of this entry »

This certainly wouldn’t have any problem landing in the Hudson…

THIS PLANE BLOWS UP

BLOW it up and then fly it. That’s all there is to taking off with the new Inflatoplane developed by Goodyear Aircraft Corp. Deflated, the plane can be carried in the back of a station wagon. Wing, tail, assembly and pilot’s seat are made of Airmat—joined layers of inflatable rubber-coated nylon fabric.

The rubber craft can be pumped up in a few minutes and requires less air pressure than is used in four auto tires. A two-cycle, 40-hp engine mounted above the wing powers the little ship, which requires more than 300 ft. to take off. It is said to have a lot of bounce to the ounce.

Tones of New Stringless Cello Generated by Electricity

AN ELECTRIC cello without strings capable of producing tremendous volume and exquisite tone has been invented by Leon Theremin, who is shown in the photo on the left demonstrating how his new instrument is played.

Tones are varied by running the fingers of the left hand up and down the heavy black line which replaces the strings, while the right hand works the pump to control the volume. Read the rest of this entry »

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Clink, Clink, Clink Goes the Trolly

Jack Francis’ whimsical kiddie trolly is clanging along to the tune of merry dollars.

JACK FRANCIS is a dreamer who follows up an idea by saying: “Let’s try it.”

Optimistic as he is, even Francis thought his idea for a kids’ trolly was a bit zany. While he rode around on his motorcycle, doing his job as a traffic officer for the city of Oakland, Calif., he kept thinking about building a little trolly car.

In his work with traffic safety, Francis had plenty of experience with youngsters. He loves children and, with the trolly car scheme he had in mind, he thought he had something that would make them happy. But he had three problems: no money to build it, no place to operate it, and no time to undertake such a project. Read the rest of this entry »