Cellini's landlady hasn't connected with the world since the 1950s--even microwave ovens utterly baffle her.
And Percy L. Spencer in 1945 watched a magnetron melt candy, leading to the invention of microwave ovens.
Microwave ovens, cellphone chargers, DVD players, computer monitors and printers all silently consume power when they aren't in use.
When the Cold War ended, Raytheon was a conglomerate producing everything from business jets to microwave ovens to college textbooks.
The 802.11b standard uses the unregulated 2.4 gigahertz radio band, which is already overloaded with cordless phones, microwave ovens and streetlights.
Wi-Fi exploits the spectrum used by such gadgets as cordless telephones and microwave ovens--airwaves that haven't been auctioned or allocated to an exclusive user.
Apple has recently updated the firmware for the base station to help with the interference problem, which, we hear, is most pronounced from microwave ovens.
He decided to produce microwave ovens, and the result was catastrophic.
Wahaha, a food producer, Galanz, a maker of microwave ovens, and many others all depended on foreign protection and capital to grow and escape state strictures.
When Whirlpool set up factories to make refrigerators, air-conditioners, washing machines and microwave ovens in China in 1994, it assumed that it was racing against other foreigners.
This frequency is crowded since it is used by everything from other tablets to microwave ovens, baby monitors, Bluetooth devices, not to mention the neighbors' Wi-Fi networks.
Water gobbles up microwaves (the heating that this causes is how microwave ovens work), so finding a good site for a microwave telescope is even harder than finding one for an optical telescope.
Ours is on a rack too shallow and low to accommodate a laser printer, and placed out of the way to minimize interference with the signal from TV sets, cordless phones and microwave ovens.
But it uses a lot of battery power, and the 2.4 GHz spectrum is also widely in use by devices like Wi-Fi networks--and cordless phones and microwave ovens can cause interference in that range.
Congestion is inevitable because Wi-Fi uses the same unregulated 2.6 gigahertz frequency as microwave ovens, cordless phones and the upcoming Bluetooth networking standard, which lets phones, PCs and vending machines talk to one another.
The punters may not know what network equipment does, but there is no reason they cannot be coaxed into demanding that whatever it is, they want the Cisco variety in their telephones and microwave ovens.
These range from microwave ovens and laser light shows to home security systems and medical imaging devices. (CDER even regulates laser pointers but not online presentation software, if ever a true risk to human health).
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