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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    England cricket team joins iPod revolution

    Mark Meadows
    GROS ISLET, St Lucia
    Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:58pm EDT
    England's Liam Plunkett poses for photographs during a World Cup cricket news conference in Rodney Bay March 13, 2007. REUTERS/Darren Staples

    GROS ISLET, St Lucia (Reuters) - England's cricket team are using an extra player to give them the edge in the World Cup -- an MP3 player.

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    Coaching staff have started loading bowling actions on to players' handheld iPod electrical gadgets so they can analyze both their own and opposition techniques.

    The dull Caribbean wickets mean England's usual swing and seam attack must come up with new ways of getting batsmen out, such as bowling slower balls and off-cutters.

    England bowler Liam Plunkett has been glued to the tiny iPod screen as he tries to learn some tips ahead of their opening Group C clash with New Zealand on Friday.

    "I have to practice the next few days but it will be right for Friday," he told reporters on Tuesday. "My swing has been taken away from me."
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