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flashcube

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flash·cube  (flshkyb)
n.
A small cube that contains four flashbulbs and that rotates automatically to the next unused bulb when a picture is taken with the camera to which it is attached.
Translations
flashcube [ˈflæʃkjuːb] N (Phot) → cubo m de flash
flashcube [ˈflæʃˌkjuːb] n (Phot) → cubo-flash m inv
flashcube [ˈflæʃˌkjuːb] n (Phot) → cubo-flash m inv


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That crucial advantage of film cameras may, however, be going the way of flashcubes.
In fact, many have gone on to become common in everyday life over the years, such as Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine, or ATM, (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display, or LCD (1980), the full color graphics printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), anticancer drug Taxol (1993), and high definition TV (1998).
Over the years, the R&D 100 Awards have recognized winning products with such household names as Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), lab on a chip (1996), and HDTV (1998).
 
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