The car body design was made mostly of aluminum for light weight, and built two inches lower than conventional sets to cut down wind resistance.

In a conventional set, voltage is used to control the brightness of the image, not its color, something that the new design also had to achieve.

Amongst other things, the computer was used to display a conventional set of instructions that could equally well have been provided in a printed form.

The company says that sound quality is as good as other more conventional hands-free sets.

That means millions of other consumers would then have to junk their conventional sets or buy digital converter boxes.

The usual number is twelve, giving the conventional set used in Western music.

There is no conventional set of instruction names (mnemonics).

But by 2007, sales of conventional sets will dwindle to less than half that, analysts say.

They follow a conventional set of rules and always think: how can we get back to the plot?

The new sets are expected to be substantially more expensive than conventional sets.