With developing of shortwave optics and more requirement of lofty precision optical machine, the processing and measurement of fine precision surface are becoming important.

短波光学的迅猛发展和高精密光学仪器的需求日益增多，对高精度表面的加工与检测也随之重要起来。

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Unlike the V5, this machine boasts an optical drive, but it does weigh a heftier 4.79 pounds.

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An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.

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