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...share of the passenger-car market made it the largest foreign automaker in 2004 and the second biggest car company overall behind Maruti, a Suzuki subsidiary. Hyundai is beating competitors by modifying its small cars with ingenious features designed for Indian customers, like elevated rooflines to provide more headroom for turban-wearing motorists...
...share of the passenger-car market makes it the largest foreign automaker and the second biggest car company overall behind Maruti, a Suzuki subsidiary. Hyundai is beating competitors by modifying its small cars with ingenious features designed for Indian customers, such as elevated rooflines to provide more headroom for turban-wearing motorists...
...basic idea is pretty clever. The Facemail people have taken biologically based imaging--the same technology that creates models of human organs for surgeons to practice on--and used it to create digital faces. Facemail faces are lifelike, in a Max Headroom-ish kind of way, and they simulate emotions based on the emoticons--for example, :-)--that you put in your text. Type in :-X, and Rachel blows a kiss. Type in I-P, and she looks disgusted. The voice reading the e-mail is standard-issue IBM ViaVoice text-to-speech...
...three-way mirror and began to play, the whole crowd of anxious modern citizens was alike in amazement; not a one was prepared for the emotional intensity delivered soon thereafter. Goofiness we might have expected from the bespectacled Aaron Perrino, the three-person band's guitarist/lead singer/Max Headroom lookalike. And we might have anticipated a too-jaded-to-smile brand of contemporary bass-playing from bassist Jim Gilbert...
...bizarre reversal of roles, NASA downplayed the near miss ? and pointed out Mir had about 1,000 yards of headroom. "It wasn't anything major. This happens every month," said NASA spokesman John Lawrence. But the incident provided a reminder of the hazards of space traffic ? where an object the size of a grain of sand can hit with the impact of a .38-caliber bullet...