Word: robotical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CARTOON CHARACTER. CB, FROM THE JAPANESE WORD FOR SMALL, SUGGESTS CHILD'S BODY; IT IS OFTEN USED AS A PREFIX. KAMI IS A GOD OR GODDESS. CAN CAN BUNNY IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF A MANGA SERIES. MECHA REFERS TO ANY KIND OF MECHANIZED HARDWARE--A GUN, A ROBOT, A SPACESHIP. SD MEANS SUPER DEFORMED. KAIJU IS A MONSTER. OAV STANDS FOR ORIGINAL ANIME VIDEO (ONE NOT MADE FOR THEATERS OR TV). OTAKU IS AN OBSESSIVE FAN OR COLLECTOR--AN ANIMANIAC. AN OST IS AN ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK...
Navy vessels equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and seasoned divers struggled to answer what were, initially, unanswerable questions. The Deep Drone, an underwater robot outfitted with sonar and cameras, located the crucial black boxes--the flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorders--within days. The flight-data recorder from the 767-300 is a new design that stores 55 measurements of the plane's movements and control inputs--as much as five times more than previous models--that should help investigators piece together what went wrong...
TIME senior writer and health columnist Christine Gorman built her first robot out of Legos when she was 10 years...
...position to achieve the hopes we originally had for it. We aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like ethanol, electricity and solar power. Food capsules? Forget it. We're still working on genetically enhancing our food, not shrinking it into little pills...
...thought the original iMac looked cool when it was introduced last fall, wait until you see version 2. Nothing I've had in my office during the past few years--from the self-feeding cat orb to the lawnmower-shaped robot--has elicited so many oohs and ahs as the iMac DV Special Edition ($1,499) that now sits on my desk top. Perhaps it's the classy "graphite" color or the clear plastic casing that lets you ogle its innards. Or maybe it's that the iMac looks like the slightly upturned nose cone of a space shuttle. With...