Nintendo sank into a loss the previous fiscal year largely because of price cuts for its hand-held 3DS game machine, which shows three-dimensional imagery without special glasses.

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The Vscan is not science fiction but a hand-held ultrasound machine with a scanning wand attached, which has been approved for use in Europe and North America.

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In some parts of the US it is easy to set up in business as a fee-charging ATM provider, all you need is a few hundred dollars for a second-hand cash machine and an electronic link to the cash machine network.

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Dr Hinton's experiments have focused on hand-written letters and numbers (handwriting recognition being a crucial, and so-far unsolved, problem in machine vision).

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Ironically, the wood inlays are so impeccably finished they look artificial and both the hand-stitched upholstery and leather-trimmed dashboard are finished so precisely it looks as if the work were done by machine.

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On the other hand, the machine's left edge crams in a decent selection of connectors -- two USB 3.0 sockets, a multicard reader, outputs for HDMI, VGA and DisplayPort, Ethernet, and a spot for the AC adapter all crawl up the edge.

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Philippe Dufour stands high up in the watchmaking pantheon, not as a brand, but an independent master watchmaker--just himself, an assistant or two, and a few machine and hand tools that would be instantly recognizable to a watchmaker 200 years ago.

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The product range now includes some machine-made items, although Bissell insists that every Fabindia product is still touched by hand.

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Hand-plucked from an open casting call in Dallas, the 15-year-old has the hit-making machine that catapulted Cyrus, Hilary Duff and Zac Efron to stardom behind her.

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