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  • In other words: The square-jawed, gadget-happy detective still has the newspaper audience -- and the creative team at the ready -- to make him a continued fiscal force on the force.

    'DICK TRACY': Writer-artist Dick Locher hangs up his fedora after 32 years Michael Cavna 2011

  • "Iron Man 2," the sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. as Marvel's gadget-happy billionaire superhero, earned $133.6 million domestically on its opening weekend, according to distributor Paramount Pictures 'estimates Sunday.

    'Iron Man 2' Cleans Up With $133.6M 2010

  • "Iron Man 2," the sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. as Marvel's gadget-happy billionaire superhero, earned $133.6 million domestically on its opening weekend, according to distributor Paramount Pictures 'estimates Sunday.

    'Iron Man 2' Cleans Up With $133.6M 2010

  • And it's just one of the chains now using gadget-happy Asia as a test bed to redefine the first-class hotel as a digital experience.

    DIGITAL HOTELS 2007

  • His life has centered around the area, beginning in the postwar era when as a gadget-happy child he scrounged components to assemble radios.

    Random Access Online: The King Of Akihabara 2007

  • As she says, “Now I can go out and buy the newest gadgets and review them immediately” -- much to the relief of her gadget-happy audience.

    Have a Google search question? 2007

  • As she says, “Now I can go out and buy the newest gadgets and review them immediately” -- much to the relief of her gadget-happy audience.

    Link unit, front and center 2007

  • As a disinterested observer of fundamental scientific research –vs. gadget-happy engineering applications– I have long had the disquieting sense that something very peculiar, a major natural phenomenon, has been occuring over centuries, worldwide, without ostensible scientific interest.

    Bottled Ball Of Lab Lightning | Blog | Futurismic 2006

  • It was, ostensibly, nothing but an oversized pocket lighter, just the sort of a thing a gadget-happy kid would carry around.

    Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Somebody That I Used to Know - was using CMJ as a gateway to an American audience; he's picked up lot of good ideas from Sting, like African-diaspora rhythms and pop concision, and his songs had a meticulous, gadget-happy charm.

    NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011

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