The hood badge on her finished car will be in memory of Tyler, a teen who didn't get enough time with his Fiero.

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Now, there's an annual car show in his memory.

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In July, a trumpet belonging to the jazz musician and composer Thara Memory was stolen from his car in his hometown of Portland, Ore.

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We've seen it before -- it's basically a car stereo faceplate that sports 1GB internal memory and connects with your PC to transfer music.

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My next memory is sitting in the car leaving (the bank).

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While drivers go about their commute, the system composes a 3D map of the car's environs and commits it to memory.

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The Motorola 815 comes packaged with a phone holder, visor clip, dash mount, car charger, and the MOTONAV service pre-installed on a memory card.

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Likewise, the company's FlashTrax looks just like an audiocassette: Stick in a multimedia card or memory stick, and you can play digital music on a car stereo or boom box.

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The young actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who looks a little like Keanu Reeves, only smarter, is Chris Pratt, a Midwestern high-school jock and rich kid who hurt his head in a car accident (it was his fault) and now suffers from short-term-memory loss.

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Eventually, when processors and memory are cheap enough, these 3-D cityscapes will make it onto in-car navigation systems, helping drivers understand their locations by displaying landmarks around them.

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The very simple forms like driving a car -- once you know how to do it, you do it automatically -- we call that implicit memory storage.

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