Electric windows, electric locks, and electric trunk catches were the latest gadgets, but wipers were one of the backwaters of automotive technology.

电动窗、电动锁和电动后盖是最新的发明，但雨刷却是汽车技术的死水。

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Electric Windows, electric locks, electric trunk catches were the latest gadgets. But wipers were one of the quiet backwaters of automotive technology.

虽然已经有了电动车窗和电锁这样新产品，但雨刷技术却还是一滩平静的死水。

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Traditional user interfaces are evolving from crude rectangular Windows with buttons and menus to full-fledged real-world virtual "gadgets."

传统的用户界面正从有着按钮和菜单的粗糙矩形窗口向成熟的虚拟现实世界的“精美的小器件”演化。

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The right-hand side of my old desktop used to be a chaotic jumble of desktop "gadgets" and Chrome windows that were forever obscuring each other or getting accidentally minimized.

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Not just to get into the fast growing smartphone industry, but to end its reliance on Microsoft Windows as the basis for its hardware gadgets.

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Gadgets are small snippets of HTML code that run on the Windows desktop.

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