“We can rebuild her. We have the technology.We can make her better than she was before: better, stronger, faster.” And so begins the career of Jaime Sommers, The Bionic Woman (1976-1978). A tennis pro nearly killed in a skydiving accident, she is rebuilt and becomes an agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence a fictional [...]
Hedy Lamarr
Ms. Lemarr, an Austrian born actress (1913-2000) who enchanted movie goers world wide with her ravishing beauty, also co-invented spread spectrum encoding, the basic technology for anti-ballistic missiles and the cell phone in your purse. Married to an arms manufacturer in the 1930′s who had forbidden her from acting (while also failing to notice her [...]
