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"This small video camera would be attached to a 19-inch sony Trinitron in another room, two hallways and four doors away. This would allow the starer to view the subject peacefully without the possibility of any form of sensory cueing. Pure chance, as arrived at by artful mathematical calculation - a computer's random algorithm - governed the starer's script. Whenever the script dictated, the starer would stare intently at the subject on the monitor and attempt to gain his or her attention." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"By now I expected her to be a senior executive at sony or Hitachi. Instead, she'd left Tokyo, he said, and moved to the island of Yaku Shima, where she lived with her husband, a schoolteacher, and their two children. When I phoned her, she was ebullient. "Mr. Dan!" she said. "It makes me happy, really, to hear your voice." I told her about my new project in Okinawa and said I hoped she could join us. "Dan," she replied, "you know I loved Quest, and for me it was really something quite powerful in my life. But now I have two small children, and I cannot leave them." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Towering electronic lights blinked on every building: sony, Hitachi, Coca-Cola. As our taxi crept down gridlocked streets, raindrops splattered on the windshield in garish red, blue, and green blotches of refracted light. At an intersection near our hotel, we passed a bubble tea stand, a shop selling electronic merchandise, a Pizza Hut, and a McDonald's. I thought: This is the longevity Shangri-la? The first morning, Greg and I caught up with photographer David McLain and assistant Rico Noce for breakfast in the hotel restaurant." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"March 2007 hit like a power surge for Panasonic, Intel, sony, and the rest of the global electronics industry. Eight months after RoHS, the EU's directive banning all hazardous chemicals and minerals in electronic devices, the Chinese equivalent came into force: the "Administration on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products" sent a signal that China would no longer allow itself to be the world's dumping ground for hazardous products." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "For many mainstream producers —Panasonic, sony, Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, and others—complying with the restrictions in China or Europe or japan (home to several of the major multinational producers) is now part of the business plan. The bulk of Kirschener's business is now consulting on the environmental standards of foreign countries, because in the United States there are no chemical controls over the production of electronics. "What the Europeans say stays, stays," he said. "And what they say goes, goes. The [U.S.] federal government is nowhere to be found." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Sony Play Stations on the Rotterdam docks. The Netherlands, one of the more densely populated countries, saw the trouble from electrical waste coming early, and in 1999 restricted the four toxic metals that would four years later be banned from all of Europe. Customs inspectors found cadmium in the Play Station cables and impounded the entire shipment on the spot. Coming at the height of the Christmas season, it was an impoundment heard around the world. The Economist reported that it cost the company close to one hundred million dollars in lost sales." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Ryu Murakami, novelist and film director, has pointed out the almost certain connection between hikikomori and 'gizmos like the new sony PlayStation, which comes equipped with an Internet terminology and a DVD player ... [and] inevitably fixes people in their individual space'. But national anxiety about the phenomenon has not in any way dimmed enthusiasm for virtual existence. Psychiatrist Satoru Saito, who researches the condition, relates it to a more general withdrawal into social isolation: 'I fear Japan itself is becoming hikikomori. It is a nation that does not like to communicate." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Hesamura has been filmed by sony Corporation's Extra Sensory Perception and Excitation Research Laboratory (ESPER) and by other paranormal researchers. To this day, no one has found a rational explanation for every trick he performs. Hesamura claims he started as a boy trying to move insects with his mind. He practiced every day and after a few years he began to see real results. "Anyone can do this with practice," he says. At the end of each show Hesamura gives a short lecture about how our thoughts affect reality. He admonishes the dinner crowd, "Pay attention to your thoughts!" - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"Our good friends at the government Energy Star program have been involved with NRDC scientists and industry executives to develop standby power specs based on his work, and major manufacturers such as sony and IBM plan to reduce standby power consumption in all products. Once again, government is seeding the market first with its vast purchasing powers, as federal agencies are now required to buy only these new power-stingy appliances. We're even making headway in Beijing." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Dell, Apple, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Panasonic, sony, and Philips. The United States is finding itself surrounded by major trading partners adopting the European Union's regulations, prompting significant changes in the industry's approach to the poisons in their products. Tech Forecasters, a high-tech consulting and design firm, estimated that the worldwide costs for implementing RoHS could amount to twenty billion dollars industry-wide over the next decade—a tiny percent of the nearly trill ion-dollar-a-year global electronics trade." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"After we were given a sony state-of-the-art professional digital video camera, Linda and I realized how we could use this unique camera to visualize systemic memory in a novel way. This camera makes it possible to slow down the feedback process—that is, make the process take more time—so that one can literally see the memory process occur frame by frame by frame. Linda and 1 spent hours witnessing systemic memory expressed in very slow motion. We saw simple patterns grow dynamically and complexly, a sequence of time-delayed temporal patterning never before witnessed by the human eye." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"I also packed a pocket-size sony short-wave radio with tiny "turbo" headphones. The sony runs on penlight batteries, and it's easy to noodle with late at night when the airwaves are crowded with Sri Lankan crooners, Burmese newscasts, Brazilian samba, BBC World News, Voice of Freedom broadcasts, Viennese symphonies, Christian missionaries, Bulgarian operas, Russian theater, and a thousand popular music programs from around the globe." - Christopher Kilham, Tales from the Medicine Trail: Tracking Down the Health Secrets of Shamans, Herbalists, Mystics, Yogis, and Other Healers (Get the book.)

"Because sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products. Why were British cities still using gas street lighting into the 1920s, long after U.S. and German cities had converted to electric street lighting? Because British municipal governments had invested heavily in gas lighting and placed regulatory obstacles in the way of the competing electric light companies." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Most consumer-level digital cameras use some sort of solid-state memory card media, such as CompactFlash, SmartMedia, or Sony's Memory Stick. These storage devices can be removed from the camera and then inserted into a computer or printer to transfer or print the stored images; most digital cameras also enable direct connect to a PC for image transfer. Lenses and Other Considerations Many low-end digital cameras come with a fixed focal-length lens and fully automatic operation—the digital equivalent of the point-and-shoot film camera." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Studios continued to be absorbed into large corporations: Columbia Pictures was purchased by sony Corporation; Universal became part of Seagram. Only the Disney Company remained a free-standing, independent entity, though their other holdings (amusement parts, television networks) turned them into a corporate giant as well. A corporate mentality, in which films are dubbed "products" and series of films are called "franchises," pervades contemporary Hollywood." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "The first commercial electronic camera was Sony's Mavica, released in 1981. The Mavica saved images onto a recordable mini disc; the mini disc was then inserted into a video reader that was connected to a television monitor or color printer. Over the next decade Eastman Kodak led the way in developing professional-level cameras, but it took the computer companies to bring them to the consumer. Consumer-Level Digital Cameras The first digital camera for the consumer market was introduced in 1994 by Apple." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "In 1957 a Japanese company—later renamed sony?cofounded by Akio Morita (1921-99) released the TR-63, the first commercially successful pocket-sized transistor radio. The success of the TR-63 m world markets was the beginning of a shift of consumer electronics production outside the United States, mainly to Japan. Japanese manufacturers quickly learned the technology of miniaturization and applied it to a number of other products, including television sets, videotape recorders, hand-held calculators, portable cassette tape players, CD and DVD players, and cellular telephones." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Digital Pocket Recorders That last word in EVP technology, apparently, is the sony ICD B7 digital pocket recorder. I got mine for only $50, so the cost of getting involved is not high! WHAT HAS ALL THIS TO DO WITH VIRTUAL MEDICINE? You may think I have spent too long on a curious byway in knowledge. Ghosts and discarnate beings tell us more about the nature of life itself but nothing about healing. I disagree. One of the common themes I meet in my contact with many peoples and races in connection with my profession is that of "spirit helpers"." - Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.)

"Like any human or animal, Sony's AIBO robotic dog goes through the developmental stages of an infant, child, teen, and adult. Daily communication and attention determine how AIBO matures.The more interaction AIBO has, the faster it grows up. (Courtesy of sony Electronics Inc.; Entertainment Robot America; www. us.aibo.com/2d/electronics/aibo/index.html) Fig. 24:Your robotic assistant. Honda Motor Company developed a lightweight humanoid robot named ASIMO that walks like a human being. Its people-friendly size lets it perform tasks within the realm of the human environment." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"I also packed a pocket-size sony short-wave radio with tiny "turbo" headphones. The sony runs on penlight batteries, and it's easy to noodle with late at night when the airwaves are crowded with Sri Lankan crooners, Burmese newscasts, Brazilian samba, BBC World News, Voice of Freedom broadcasts, Viennese symphonies, Christian missionaries, Bulgarian operas, Russian theater, and a thousand popular music programs from around the globe." - Christopher Kilham, Tales from the Medicine Trail: Tracking Down the Health Secrets of Shamans, Herbalists, Mystics, Yogis, and Other Healers (Get the book.)

"CD covers: 1994, sony Music; 1994, Elektra Records) • = literature listed on pages 878-907 ** = literature listed on pages 689-93 344 Ambrosia consisted of honey, water, fruits, olive oil, cheese, and barley. The first letters of the Greek names of these ingredients yield the word myceta, the accusative form of mykes, "fungus." Graves sees this as a secret message indicating that the ambrosia of the gods actually consisted of (psychoactive) fungi (Graves 1957**). In ancient times, the dictum that "mushrooms are the food of the gods" was a familiar one (Graves 1957**)." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

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