It is a specially designed tractor-trailer with laser measuring devices mounted on a beam under the trailer.

My meeting with Johnston, for example, was to talk about the Hughes helicopter development program, not to give him my reports on the laser measuring devices we believed were in the Roswell spacecraft.

The hour ought to be boring, since its subject is the high-tech tools of science: laser measuring sticks, three-dimensional forest maps, global positioning system tags, and infra-red and motion-sensitive cameras.

The buildings will have flooring leveled out via laser measuring devices, Mr. Malinsky said, so that its racking system may operate with maximum efficiency.

Mr. Cosgrove said part of the problem last Thursday was the use of new laser measuring equipment with which investigators were not yet familiar.

It would take the finest laser measuring equipment to detect that as it climbed, apparently to infinity, as it dropped dizzily away, as it planed out to either side, it also curved.

The answer to the concerns of both man and beast was a hand-held laser measuring device known as the Leica Disto.

A hand-held laser measuring device designed for use by anyone, not just trained surveyors, was not initially an obvious solution.

Not all laser measuring devices toil in contracting obscurity.

But in Hollywood, laser measuring devices are more commonly found on the other side of the camera.