If the project is approved, engineers would hope to have the propulsion unit, or service module, ready to fly on the American rocket's first test flight.

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The i3 will be powered by huge lithium-ion batteries positioned under the floorboards (a distribution of weight that eases handling) with a drive system, chassis and energy storage unit all incorporated into a body module made of aluminium.

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For example, a trainer running a workshop on information skills for a women's organization could choose components from the 'Searching the Internet' unit and the 'Violence against Women' module, and combine them into a single workshop kit.

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Until now all these devices have been one-off prototypes, but CUPP's partnering with Origin to make the PunkThis board available as an option on the EON11-S. The machine we played with was a pre-production unit using CUPP's single core ARM module running Gingerbread, but the company is working on a multi-core version with Jelly Bean.

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In September, Archos plans to offer a camera module for an additional price, which will convert the unit into a digital camera and video recorder.

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But in most situations, data such as music files or saved games will get saved in the module's RAM rather than cluttering up the Visor unit.

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