Rotary dials and buttons kill the romance of slamming a car through quick, high-speed gear changes.
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It guaranteed that telecom startups could "co-locate" their new high-speed gear at the facilities of big, old phone companies.
With technologies like direct injection, cylinder on demand and seven-speed gear boxes, "you don't have to sacrifice, " says Mr. Hoch.
These video games feature ship wheels for steering, various buttons and a gear shift for speed.
Instead of stepped gears like a conventional transmission, it has a fixed planetary gear, and changes engine speed by adjusting the generator electric load.
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HCD-14 Genesis uses optical recognition to identify the driver and initiate the starting sequence, while gear selection for the 8-speed automatic transmission is performed via paddle shifters.
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Cisco is eager to sell its own bigger routers to service providers like Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSK - news - people ), which currently buys relatively few products from Linksys (the service providers offer the home gear to families purchasing high-speed data).
The short-throw six-speed manual gearbox continues to be a gear-rower's delight, though the clutch pedal throw could be a bit heavier.
It's not just about speed, though -- the new gear also supports interesting new services, including the ability to notify users when other users (for example, children) have entered the base station's range and reception of time- and location-sensitive coupons directly to phones presently attached to the cell.
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But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
The inquiry heard that in second gear, in low ratio, the maximum speed was 18.2mph, but 39.7mph in high setting.
There's also 320 horsepower on tap, lest we forget, which means by the time you've reached the 7, 000 rpm redline in second gear, you're shattering any legal speed limit in America.
Viewers can watch the high-speed smash on Sunday's episode of Top Gear.
Any car that can pull 100 mph in second gear, 140 mph in third and a top speed of 208 mph is not to be downplayed.
And the scream of snowmobile engines assailed eardrums as 57 racers in colorful gear kicked up big spurts of sand as they gained speed to seemingly defy nature and head out onto the open water.
Another distinguishing feature is the speed-sensitive power steering with rack-and-pinion steering gear: the power assistance is implemented electrohydraulically rather than just hydraulically.
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Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.
Hemisphere is decked out with a host of toys for the discerning seafarer to play with -- smaller speed boats to go water skiing and wake boarding, water scooters and diving gear, as well as a jacuzzi on the fly bridge.
You may wish the manual tranny had a sixth gear or that there were steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters for the six-speed, dual-clutch automatic.
Ghai notes that he has been cautious on the provider of enterprise wireless networking gear ahead of an expected upgrade cycle in expectations that a shift to the higher speed 802.11ac standard could cause a pause in the market.
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One possible use of this technology is to provide context information from the car, something like the engine speed has reached 2000 rpm, the parking brake has been disengaged, the transmission gear is in drive and the brake pedal is fully off the floor.
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Huawei, which makes telecoms gear, is a master of recombining existing technologies and bringing them to market at lightning speed.
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