It apparently had skidded off a road at a sharp curve.

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What we're about to show you is decidedly low-tech -- it's essentially a projection screen with a sharp curve at the bottom -- but the resulting effect conveys a more realistic 3D image, for certain applications, at least.

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Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil claims we are living in the knee of the curve: the sharp bend upward.

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The blade is sharp on the inside of the curve, allowing the user to swing it through crops, cutting and gathering them at the same time.

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Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.

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Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.

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Stress tests of the largest 17 commercial banks showed that most of the banks seem resilient to isolated shocks, including a sharp reduction in real estate and other asset values, shifts in the yield curve, and changes in the exchange rate.

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