Its fitting that one of the training texts for this package is from Arthur C. Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey. This widely respected large-vocabulary voice-recognition application does an astonishingly good job at delivering what once seemed like technology of the distant future.

There are a few catches, however. The system needs to be set up for a specific users voice through a training session: a time-intensive process that involves what seems like yelling into the small Time-Life ope..

Every child is at some time tempted to take their favourite doll into the bath with them, sometimes with disastrous results. But with the Singing Bouncy Baby Bath Time doll--who comes complete with her own little bath tub, a bathing suit, hairbrush and ribbons and that all important rubber duck--you have everything you need to make bathtime the best fun ever. And best of all: this is a doll especially designed to get very, very wet.

Either fill up Bouncing Babys own little bath with bubbles ..

The Xbox Adrenaline Pack is designed to show off the speed and power of the Xbox. It includes the Xbox game system snowblinding snowboard sim, Amped and fast and furious racing game Project Gotham Racing. Weve also included an additional Xbox controller so you can play your games with a friend.

Take the power and flexibility of a dedicated computer gaming system and combine it with the easy-to-use, instant-on format of a high-end console system and what do you get? Well, if you ..

Optical Character Recognition is a technology that sets out to do what the human brain can do almost instantly--convert visual data into textual data. In other words, to read and understand printed text. To a certain extent, todays generation of OCR software manages to recognise most text you can throw at it, but still needs to be babysat.

Readiris Pro will, fairly quickly, recognise large blocks of text with deft precision, provided the text is in a monospaced font with no page creases..