IT MAY NOT PROVE AS HANDY AS THE Model T, but, conceptually, a tiny machine unveiled this year blows the doors off Henry Ford’s famous car or any other previous machine.

也许它在便利性上无法与Model T型车相提并论，但在概念性上，这台于今年公布于众的小机器却把福特公司生产的那辆名车远远抛在了身后，甚至于超越了所有前人发明的机器。

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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.

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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.

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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.

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