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...preventing the leading mechanized cause of death, car crashes. Some of these pioneering firms--like Optobionics, a company based in Naperville, Ill., that is perfecting a microchip to help the blind see--have a decidedly cyborg bent. Others use advanced computer technology to stimulate humans into action, like the dashboard equipment from Seeing Machines that detects when drivers become drowsy and then jolts them awake. And companies like Gilead and Procognia are helping to find new drugs to stop the world's killer diseases. But what unites all these companies is the common desire to use the latest scientific...
...plane's four afterburners ignited, as indicated by four green lights on the plane's dashboard. Blood hit the throttles and we whizzed down the runway. To make the BONE more aerodynamic and thus faster, Blood reached to his right and pulled back on a lever which retracted the wings to a desired angle. It reminded me of the way I set the height of the blades on my lawnmower. We accelerated to roughly 500 m.p.h. at an altitude of 10,000 ft. and moments later we were over Powder River. That's when he took his hand...
...RADIO CONTROL Want to lose the headphones entirely? A transmitter attachment to the iPod can broadcast tunes from the player to a nearby FM radio. Each model has its pros and cons. One of the priciest is the TransPod ($100), which mounts on your car's dashboard and doubles as a battery charger. Less expensive is C. Crane's model, but it's nearly as big as the player itself. The iRock 300W is smaller, but it plays through only a measly four frequencies. I chose the new iTrip from Griffin Technology, a stylish gizmo roughly the size...
...didn't even need to supersize it. And in January, after finishing his second term as Governor of Maine, Angus King set out with his family on a five-month cross-country odyssey in his big Newmar Dutch Star, which in place of a rearview mirror has a dashboard video screen hooked up to an aft-mounted camera...
...with most bands the media labels “emo,” the Prom’s slower numbers are pretty but overly sentimental. Fortunately, they never reach the maudlin levels of more well-known bands such as Dashboard Confessional...