Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.

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With that computational power and the ability to tirelessly swim across vast oceans, the Wave Glider SV3 represents a big step forward in the state-of-the-art of unmanned monitoring and exploration.

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We think that's the right way for Northern Ireland to go forward but we don't think that we need to wave flags - wrap ourselves in the flag - to provide the leadership that Northern Ireland needs.

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And even assuming that the Feds wave the deal forward, Google will have to sell it to a more important constituency--DoubleClick's clients, who worry that the company's new owners may end up competing with them.

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First and foremost is the 180-degree swiveling LCD, which, like Samsung's MultiView flavor, flips all the way forward to simplify composition for self-portraits, but it also offers some nifty gesture controls, letting you wave briefly to trigger a two-second countdown, for example.

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