Re "How to Sidestep a Two-Pronged Vampire" (May 1), on ways of curbing the waste of electricity by electronic devices: The standby power use of consumer electronics and many other devices is indeed a growing problem, but consumers don't need to measure every product before they buy.
Dr. Edward Tenner, author of "Why Things Bite Back" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) -- about technology's tendency to "recomplicate" life -- fears that tracking and managing reminders delivered by electronic devices might simply be an added chore.
My children are normally too anaesthetised by electronic devices to want to play car games, but my wife and I enjoy a game she made up called Coach, which is the simplest game ever devised but rather fun.
Given the problems in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, ballots printed on recycled paper, counted in public for all to see, are the best way to restore public confidence in an electoral system that has been badly damaged by electronic devices.
David D. Teater, senior director of the National Safety Council, whose son was killed by a driver talking on her phone, said he was pleased to see telecommunications companies, including AT&T, no longer lobbying against laws aimed at curbing driver distraction caused by electronic devices.
Finally, they started wondering if the magnetic fields produced by electronic devices on campus might be the culprit.
Of course, not one of the seventy-five incidents were verified to be caused by electronic devices.
EMI shielding refers to the capability of a material to protect from electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated by electronic devices.
Subsequently, Bush and his colleagues replaced the wheel-and-disc integrators and other mechanical components by electromechanical, and finally by electronic, devices.
