In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.

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Same all-metal chassis but also, the same flat keyboard.

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From its heyday in the 1970s, table hockey featuring stick figures on a flat board controlled by metal rods, wielding mini-sticks swatting at a small puck was nearly wiped out by videogames and the Internet.

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The rest of the arsenal is simple: a pizza stone or two to boost and hold that all-important heat in the oven and a peel preferably metal (tip: you can use the flat back of a baking sheet in a pinch) to extract the pie with a minimum of mess when it's ready.

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