Kurzweil told the story of how he had begun work on software for a tiny machine that could read text to the blind years before the hardware was available to make it feasible.
The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
The company innovates quickly: for instance, it has recently launched a tiny machine that washes little more than one change of clothing and was an instant hit in Shanghai, where living conditions are cramped but residents care about clean clothes.
What, do you think you'll be able to go through life with a tiny calculating machine in your shirt pocket, she screamed.
Manchester scientists have developed a tiny molecular machine that mirrors the function of the ribosome, which builds the proteins in our body's cells.
This machine shatters tiny amounts of a sample into its component atoms, ionises those atoms in order to give them an electric charge, and then uses that charge to attract the atoms along a tube.
The biggest change the slots industry has ever seen is coming soon, thanks to a tiny part on the back of every machine: the networking port.
The Large Hadron Collider -- the giant accelerating machine that created the Higgs boson -- might just make a tiny wormhole for long enough that its time-bending effects could be glimpsed.
The machine used 18, 000 vacuum tubes to handle the calculations that are now performed by tiny microchips.
He's rigged up a catapult to his mini-fridge, a tiny elevator to carry the beers activate a doll with a remote control - and voila, a beer-tossing machine.
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