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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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    New York police recruits use iPods to study

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    A New York City police officer stands watch at an intersection, September 25, 2007. The New York Police Department is handing out iPods to academy recruits for the first time to allow them to listen to and watch coursework on the subway. REUTERS/Keith Bedford

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Police Department is handing out iPods to academy recruits for the first time to allow them to listen to and watch coursework on the subway.

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    The iPods are "fully loaded" with subject matter including criminal procedure, New York State Penal Law, warrants, ethics and community policing, the department said on Monday.

    Outfitting recruits with gadgets instead of books comes in handy because many students take public transportation to class.

    "Now a recruit can watch a class on 'search and seizure' while going home on the subway," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement.

    The current academy class includes 947 recruits and is scheduled for graduation on December 27.

    (Reporting by Robert MacMillan; Editing by Daniel Trotta)
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