Its iDrive user interface consists of an LCD panel mounted in the dashboard and a controller knob mounted on the center console, and it controls a vast and disparate number of functions in BMWs.
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The remaining 15% of first-half sales came from the aviation segment, which offers a comprehensive line of panel-mounted and portable products, including completely integrated systems that deliver flight instrumentation, location, navigation, communication and identification data.
The science fiction future, as imagined by children growing up between the 1950s and 1980s is already here: we have the flat panel televisions mounted on the wall like canvases, we have the Dick Tracy personal communication devices (and we've managed to cram jukeboxes inside them -- we call them iPhones) but we're missing something.
Greg Johanson, president of Solar Electric Vehicles in Westlake Village, California, said his company makes a roof-mounted panel for a standard Prius that enables the car to travel up to 15 additional miles a day.
For example, he cited a 13th-century crucifixion triptych from the collection sharing the same exhibition space with Damien Hirst's "The Kingdom of the Father, " a three-panel work of mounted butterflies loaned by the Broad Art Foundation in Santa Monica.
You can then configure each panel with either two side-mounted speakers or a single speaker under the panel which Sharp claims will produce clear, natural sound.
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The Frick's own little Crucifixion gives us Piero's strengths in miniature, with harmoniously posed soldiers casting lots at the foot of the cross, a swooning Virgin, and superbly modeled horses of the mounted soldiers on either side of the panel.
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You mounted the tapes, you flipped the switches on the front panel, you rebooted when things crashed, and possibly even replaced the burned out vacuum tubes.
The IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one offers several connectivity options including high-speed WiFi, a 6-in-1 media card reader, side-mounted USB and FireWire ports with additional USB ports on the rear of the panel.
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In the prototype, a flat-panel video display is bolted to the place where instruments such as the speedometer would normally be mounted.
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