European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday december 16, 1985 taking a byte out of anglers tall tales Anaheim. Calif. Upi1a Var again will a fish Erman have to rely Only on his credibility in talking about the one that got  per less than $75. He can buy a computerized Gadget that could help him spin his talc. And for the runner who takes his running seriously there is now a shoe with a built in computer that can compare statistics Between one Day s run and the next and even measure the number of calories lost. The Fisherman s computerized Helper and the fancy shoe w Cre among hundreds of gadgets widgets and contraptions unveiled last week at the three Day Winter National design engineering conference. One Young designer came to the conference in the Hope of attracting buyers for his minimum vehicle a three wheeled Cross Between a car and a motorcycle. The hybrid is said to get 100 mpg of fuel. The thousands who filled the Anaheim convention Center Fot the show by 250 exhibitors fiddled with inventions that ranged from $20.000 personal computer packages to mini vacuum pumps for artificial heart patients. But what seemed to elicit the most sustained interest were the widgets Small nuts bolts and other things. Often with no name Mac of rubber plastic and Metal. Unlike the computerized running shoes or fishing Nolc. The widgets in question arc used As components of a larger whole. Most arc waiting for an inventor to snatch them up to use in a device that has yet to be invented. We had one Guy one year who had a Booth that said. Tell us what to do with these " conference spokesman Jim Greif said. One such exhibitor was f Mcclin Wade co. Of Oregon whose Booth featured multicoloured coils of Holyur Chanc tubing. We starting making the air tubing for dental tools designer Jack Burns said. Now it has applications we never dreamed of. People want to make bracelets and necklaces out of it. One company wants to use it for dog leashes. Grocery stores want it for grocery  Burns said buyers love the modern look of his products. People arc just in love with High tech he said. I can t think of a More exciting time to be a design Engi  Adidas Hopes to capitalize on this interest in High tech with its new computerized running shoes which come in space suit Silver. The shoes available As the Micro acc in april for $170 a pair arc equipped with a sensor embedded in one of the soles. The sensor feeds data to a tiny computer that looks like a digital watch and rests in inc Tongue of the shoe. Once runners arc Able to decipher the somewhat con fusing code of numbers and letters thai pop Onlo the tiny computer face they can gel information on the number of calories burned distance travelled Speed of inc run and a comparison with the previous Day s Outing. A similar Gadget is a Small computerized sensor that fits on any fishing  sensor which looks like a Small Box beeps when the fish strikes reacting both to nibbles and real bites. It also measures the intensity of the fight put up by the hapless fish and its weight. Called fish master and available for $73.70, the Gadget apparently has a Short memory which is both Good and bad said Barbara Danow associate editor of design news Magazine which sponsored the exhibit of the  memory of the weight of the fish docs t last too Long so you can still lie about the fish if you want to Danow said. Pilots say deregulation made flying less Safe Dallas Dpi by an overwhelming margin commercial pilots believe airline deregulation Lias made air travel More dangerous a Survey of More than 1.200 pilots by a newspaper showed. The Dallas times Herald reported Sun Day thai nearly two thirds of the pilots responding to its Survey believed deregulation was not in the Best interest of safely. Al though stressing hat flying is still the safest Way to travel some respondents were uneasy about recent rends. I will take years and years for the safety problems caused by deregulation to be come acute and there will be better years and worse years said a co Pitot for a major airline. But deregulation and cheap air fares will be paid for and they will be paid for in  Only one in 70 pilots said deregulation instituted under the Carter administration in 1978, had improved airline safety. About half expressed concern that airlines stress profits at the expense of safety. Although i m never forced to Lake a plane i Don t like 1 Sec More inclination to nurse planes along and gel them somewhere else said Pilot Warren Bayliss. Lei s face it it s costly to keep maintenance up to the lop level. If a company can pos Ponc a Cost. It s economically attractive to do  he said. Deregulation has taken one of the Best transportation systems in the world and virtually crippled it said a Pilot based in Mississippi. Although Competition is a Good thing i think it has taken emphasis away from safety and efficiently moving passengers from one place to another and has wrongly placed the emphasis on making a  almost on third of inc pilots 31.7 percent said the Quality of air traffic control had declined. The times Herald reported that 44.1 percent said aircraft maintenance had declined and 45.5 percent said new pills Are nol up to previous Stan Dards. The air transport association said the Survey was invalid because pilots ill safety concerns were More Likely to respond than those with no concerns. The financial Impact of deregulation on pilots led to some of the negative comment the Survey respondents admitted. Several said the growth of Low Cost airlines hot filled the skies with planes with questionable maintenance records and pills with questionable skills. 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Convicted spy gets 5-year suspended term Versailles France a Robert Jug a 60-year-old French Engineer charged with spying for the soviet onion. Has been convicted in a Versailles criminal court and assessed a five year suspended prison sentence. Juge was arrested in March 1983 and accused of having Given documents and samples of equipment to a member of the soviet commercial Mission to France