Customers can also purchase the customised Limited Edition "Gears of War 3" wireless controller separately.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
Already, hearing aids and high-tech parts of military jets are being printed in customised shapes.
True, the back had been customised as a cedar-shingle hut, complete with a crooked stove-pipe.
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B-52 bombers, but modern jets have 4m parts and are customised for individual airlines.
Customised appeals to donate, canvass, host a house party or organise a registration drive follow.
As well as containing a core vocabulary the system could be customised to the patient's individual circumstances.
However, an increasing number of viruses are customised to take aim at specific industries, nations or companies.
Also, the power and eject buttons have been customised with unique sounds from the "Gears of War" universe.
This allows for full-screen video packages, customised for the curriculum, to be sent to subscribing schools each week.
CDs, computers and even golf clubs can be customised for an individual buyer.
And they must be tightly managed according to customised rather than generic rules.
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Some big manufacturers may have to revert from mass production to customised production.
The software can, for example, assign a customised scoring algorithm to each credit card, depending on its normal usage patterns.
Depending on the segment, people would see different emails, customised with content, layout and images that spoke to their motivations.
Mr Groome was last seen driving a 2002-registered black Volkswagen Golf car, which police said had been customised and was distinctive.
Many had customised cars - usually made in the US - for hunting tigers, leopards and Asiatic lions in India's forests.
Wavii, which was launched last year, offers customised news feed to users, summarising news stories, tweets and blogs related to their interests.
He added that the prototype had been built using existing off-the-shelf components, but there was scope to improve the equipment with customised parts.
Technology developed for use by jet pilots, which tracks eye movements, is to be customised for use in diagnosing dyslexia in young children.
If people want this kind of customised paternalism, why can't the market, in the shape of rehab clinics and personal trainers, provide it?
It laid off consultants in its main business, shut a unit that produced customised software and closed down another that provided consulting to start-ups.
Part of the advantage of 3D printing is the ability to make a variety of individually customised parts at a similar cost to making multiple, identical replicas.
Several had customised or home-made sledges, including a boy called Harry.
But that is perfectly adequate to run the customised version of Linux that comes pre-installed on it, along with a suite of software, including Open Office.
Customers are getting more and more demanding, looking for a customised solution delivered within days, and no longer willing to accept a commodity product in weeks.
For now, however, the closest relative of a Trabant on the road is arguably an armoured Mercedes limousine, customised by Trasco, a subsidiary of Sachsenring in Bremen.
The biggest difference, says Dimitrios Sabatakakis, chief executive of Systran, is that the Internet makes it much easier to create a customised version of a machine-translation system.
And how far should the client demand a customised solution, tailored to fit its particular needs, or accept a one-size-fits-all answer, which offers greater economies of scale?
It is currently being stored in a customised building at Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, and is operated by the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics.
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