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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last year, was an unexpectedly funny bionic buddy, and a runaway success: to date, 2.3 million units have been sold. The newer version comes at a higher price-$250 instead of $100-but with jacked-up specs and capabilities. Twice as many motors control the limbs, digits, head and neck, and there are stereo microphones for sensing audio, while a camera detects motion and color. Mix a little of the original robot's sass with some nice new artificial intelligence, and you've got a robot that reacts to its environment or takes commands from the two-stick infrared remote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WowWee Robosapien V2 | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

...Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near his home in Condell Park. On Nov. 11, 25-year-old Izzydeen Atik was arrested after police stopped his car in a Sydney street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror in the Suburbs? | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...eliminating the static that often occurs when hearing aids and mobile phones interact. A miniature microphone transmits the wearer's voice back to the phone. And for people who use in-the-ear hearing aids, there's another version of ELI that hangs on a cord around the neck. Next Product: Patchwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Healthy Options | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...device has an embroidered pattern that gives it strength and flexibility while imitating human tendons. Once implanted between muscles and bones, the device is never removed; it becomes part of the body as cells grow over it. This technology is also being used to replace slipped disks in the neck and to aid in clavicle-replacement surgery. Next Product: Walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Healthy Options | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...novels"? Didn't Gertrude Stein say a rose is a rose is a rose? When I first visited Spain, even to speak in hushed tones in a bar about royal succession, homosexuality or statutes would have been dangerous. If you didn't want the Guardia Civil on your neck - as once happened to me for lighting a small fire on a secluded beach to cook a fish - you kept talk to toros, the failings of the national football team ? and pass the sangria. The Generalissimo was a man whose semantics ranged from Si! to No!, who personally chose Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Birth of a Nation | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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