Those are dedicated devices like the Magellan RoadMate that the consumer can buy in a consumer electronics outlet or club warehouse, put into his car and get up and running very quickly.

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"We've been able to very quickly get a prototype up and running, " Neil Barnden, co-founder of Stainless Games, told the BBC.

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Mr. HANSON: In this area we have a good chunk of the good skilled laborers working at our plant, so it was a very important for us to work very quickly to let them know that we can get this up and running.

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