That means that the good mimics are restricted to places where their models live.

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Brasil reports that the country will receive 50 test laptops from OLPC, making it the first nation to have actual, live, working models.

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Prof Murray said one of the reasons for creating the models was to make people change the way they live.

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Pioneer is expanding its current line of BonusView Blu-ray Disc players to now offer a complete lineup of models with full BD-Live capabilities.

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The list of role models has to be as diverse and colorful as the real world we live in.

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Fusion creates live 3D models of both people and objects, while Interactions adds a whole variety of recognizable gestures to the Kinect for Windows SDK ("push-to-press buttons, grip-to-pan capabilities, and support for smart ways to accommodate multiple users and two-person interactions, " says Microsoft).

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In a 2005 "Saturday Night Live" sketch, an actor playing Steve Jobs kept introducing smaller and smaller iPod models until he got to the "iPod Invisa, " which appeared not to exist at all.

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