The hand-held console is among the first mainstream products to deliver 3-D images without requiring special glasses.
But not even Ford's bullish chief executive, Jac Nasser, thinks that Ford's mainstream products can recapture lost ground.
When it began in 1990, founder Bob Worsley pictured SkyMall carrying mainstream products but quickly found that people were wary of buying everyday items at an airport.
Microsoft, according to Quentin Hardy of The New York Times, is also into machine learning, promising to incorporate it in the near future in mainstream products such as Excel and Outlook.
But it's also worth bearing in mind that the wording leaves some wriggle room for Intel -- not least in terms of selling LGA socket chips only as expensive niche options (i.e. the true definition of "enthusiast") rather than as mainstream products, should it wish to do so.
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Despite these benefits, many people, particularly low-to-moderate income households, do not access mainstream financial products, such as bank accounts and low-cost loans.
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They see soap and mainstream medications as products of Corporate America and that makes them turn to the so-called naturalistic alternatives.
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The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumer storage solutions, network-attached storage solutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumer storage products.
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And USDA is planning to integrate data on culturally relevant foods into mainstream agency nutrition informational products.
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The defense acquisition system thus diminishes economies of scale and isolates military products from the mainstream of industrial innovation, largely precluding cross-fertilization between the defense and commercial sectors.
Now TNI is changing course yet again, angling for mainstream acceptance with a new suite of products.
"Our goal this year was to blend the enthusiast level and the mainstream, to create a class of products with mass appeal, " said Velocity Micro President and CEO Randy Copeland.
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Products that are gaining a stronghold in the mainstream market include bamboo flooring, cork tiles and composite countertops.
Code Factory's products are compatible with the widest range of mainstream mobile devices running on Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Smartphones, and Android.
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The danger is that Hollywood's taste in its own products is becoming as removed from public opinion as its political views are outside the American mainstream.
These products, originally meant for people who suffer from an ailment called Celiac, have gone mainstream and have become the new hotly desired items in groceries and supermarkets, joining the ranks of natural and organic foods.
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