The Sky Crane was a splayed, skeletal thing, with rocket thrusters for legs and cables spooling out of its belly.

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While hardware sales of all other systems are slowly winding down, as tends to happen near the end of a console generation, Xbox 360 is spooling up.

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As a result of limitations like these, he said, the Japanese craft Kaiko had limited manoeuvrability and needed a custom-built ship for spooling out the reams of heavy cable required to attach it to the ship.

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Once you've paired the headphones to your phone, it's simply a matter of spooling up some tunes in the app, and you're good to go -- return the Ghost Bee to its cradle and the music starts coming out of the speakers.

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