[Here's your host...] NAME THAT WIDGET

September 24, 1998

FROM OUR
AUGUST 17 CONTEST

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Our contest winner says this widget is a hydropneumatic head scratcher, but it’s really the S465 spray robot system from CRS Robotics.

AND THE WINNER IS....
Mike Shonle, Input Software

BUT THESE ARE PRETTY GOOD TOO...

The Fonz-a-tron, complete with leather jacket. Ayyyyy! Wallace P Widget uses this very model to slick back his hair.
—Larry Buchholz, Silicon Systems

A high-tech anteater, 100 times better at cleaning your house of ants than the old-fashioned four-footed variety.
—Bob Belcher, Wave Mechanics

A baby elephant washer (except for the chrome nostrils, looks like mom).
—Dan Dull, Encad

A programmable arm-wrestling trainer, as used by the US Olympic Arm Wrestling Team.
—Chuck Wozniak, Quantum Data

MONICA (Manually Operated Numerical Input Coating Agent), with stain-proof covering, proper use of protection, and the ability to zip through the same task over and over without complaint.
—Bill Noble

Enter our contest and win $100

Mike Shonle of Input Software wins the Name That Widget! contest for EDN’s August 17 issue. Mike identified the contest widget (shown left) as a numerically controlled hydropneumatic head scratcher. Its use, Mike says, is to enhance software-development productivity by enabling engineers to puzzle over bugs without removing their hands from the keyboard.

Good guess, Mike, and one that we like. In real life, however, our August 17 widget is the S465 spray robot system from CRS Robotics Corp (www.crsrobotics.com). It’s controlled by a transputer, and its articulated arm has six degrees of freedom for programmed painting of variously shaped objects. One of the S465’s greatest advantages is that it greatly reduces human exposure to potentially harmful vapors.

To enter our latest contest, with a prize of $100, check out the device shown below, and Name That Widget! Send your entry (or entries), along with the issue date, by e-mail (widget@edn.cahners.com), by fax (Wallace P Widget, 1-617-558-4470), or by snail mail (Wallace P Widget, EDN Magazine, 275 Washington Street, Newton, MA 02458).

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Deadline for entries: October 8, 1998

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