ROBOTS FOR PLAYMATES

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FUTURE SHOCK has arrived in the world of
science and technology. And it is not limited to
Cape Canaveral. An incredible array of minor
technological miracles are now available to the
North Shore consumer.

The age of the personal

aircraft is upon us. The
ultralight aircraft industry

has come a long way im the
past ten years when daring
hang glider pilots bolted

verted from aircraft to hang

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glider to dune buggy to
airboat to seaplane. And
chainsaw engines to their skis will be available for
gliders. Today there are next winter. Flight designs of

dozens of kits available for
the do-it-yourselfer.

One of the more amazing
aircraft can be quickly con-

Salinas California market the
Jet Wing ATV (all-terrain
vehicle) for under $5,000

US. The Jet Wing ATV can

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ON THE ROAD TO INDIA, Anna Wyman Dancers leave Saturday morning for Calcutta where they will begin a
tour performing such works as Cadenza, Dancer's Circus and Two People. The West Vancouver troupe will
return mid April. Anna Wyman is pictured on the hood and behind her are dancers (left to right) Neil Wortley,

Trevor Schalk, Denise O'Brian, Francis Nash, Dianne Garrett, Thomas Hafford, Mark Wilson and Christine Cyr.

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be assembled in one day. It
lifts off the water at 23 mph
and cruises at 35 mph.

Incidently, ultra light
aircraft are for more than
good times. Los Angeles_

police are now flying ultra
lights to patrol the suburb of
Monteray Park and _ it’s
costing them only $5 an hour
compared to $500 an hour
for a helicopter.

How would you like your
own flying saucer? Moller
Corporation of Davis,
California are in the early
production stages of a four
passenger ‘saucer’’-like
aircraft that is powered by
eight 40 HP engines. It takes
off vertically and can fly 200
mph. The cost will be ap-
proximately $20,000.

Other exciting develop-
ments in the air are in the
form of new balloon

technology. Imagine a giant
beach ball sitting on a manta
tay and you have the unique
spinning Van Dusen skyship
It is being developed by
Ottawa designer Federick
Ferguson who hopes the

batioon witt be used by the

forest industry to pick up
trees hke so many miat-
chstcks. His skyship can Iift
an incredible 45 tons

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@n the electronic news-
front, soon to be released is
a tiny wristwatch TV. It has
a 1.2 ineh- hquid crystal
screen. The Suwa Seiko Co.
will market it for about $400
US. ¥

Another Japanese marvel
is Sonys new filmless camera
called the Mavica system.
The same size as an ordinary
35mm camera, it produces
an electronically coded
picture that can be shown
immediately on any colour
television set. You can even
send the pictures over the
telephone lines. The system

wall first be introduced in

Japan in about a vear and a
half and then over here in
North America.

What would a home in the
eighties be without a robot?
Nolan Bushnell. millionaire
Atarl ainventor. 1s now
marketing a robot simular to
R2D2 of Star Wars. Self-
propelled, the “Androbot” (a
contraction of android and
robot) sells in two versions.
The $1,000 model is
designed to be controlled by
a video game joystick and a
personal computer with
winch it tommunicates by
radio. The $2,500 model has

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