Knobs and switches on its World Core synthesizer module adjust the game machine's maps, graphics, characters and even physics through voltage tweaks.

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The 2012 Camry System includes features like Pandora internet radio control (when available), built-in Navigation package with state-of-the -art iGo Primo software featuring lane assist, Navteq US and Canada maps plus 11 million POIs and 3D landmarks and building graphics.

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The current project, BrailleBlaster, will allow the integration of text with Braille graphics such as maps and graphs into a format accessible to blind people.

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Working with a nonprofit organization that helps poor women find jobs, Medhi has designed a job-board Web site that uses maps to illustrate where the jobs are and graphics and icons in place of text for the job descriptions.

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It loads much more quickly than the old iOS Google Maps app because it uses vector graphics instead of bitmap graphics, and it has turn-by-turn navigation which the old iOS Google Maps app did not have.

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The Android version of Google Maps has the most toys and the most beautiful graphics.

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Most importantly, Google is now using vector graphics for its maps, which are scalable and much lighter weight than the traditional stitched together images used in most Google Maps incarnations.

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