It's a good bet that Einstein hair, binocular-like National Health Service specs, soiled lab coats, and acres of corduroy will not be gracing the pages of the glossy mags in this millennium.
Lab SPEC v. 5 software was used for data acquisition and processing.
All acquisition operations were controlled by Lab Spec 6-Horiba Scientific software.
The Cube is often switched on in my home, against my will, and this column will be printed out and stapled to future divorce papers under the heading of "Extreme mental cruelty: see task involving pressing button on shonky ZX-81 tennis game, and game which is simply stepping over a 2ft-tall Plexiglas hurdle while wearing lab specs".
They teach people to feed themselves and feed their families and make the most of British produce and stretch family budgets and have a jollier life, and do this in a way a rich white man in lab specs making a giant custard cream in a bid to advertise his very very exclusive restaurant does not.
Genologics software does this for genomics and mass spec research in labs.
Guido Verbeck, an associate professor at the University of North Texas who miniaturizes mass specs in his lab, envisions applications for his designs in homeland security and the military, such as being able to "toss" a mass spec into a burning industrial fire to have it report back what is burning, he says.
The designer's drawings were turned into three-dimensional wooden models, or sewn by hand into leather specs in a prototype lab at Wolverine headquarters.
Among such fashionable abbreviations are exam, gym, lab, lib, op, spec, sub, tech, veg, and vet.
But the most exciting applications for mini mass specs surely lie outside the lab.
