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Article: Who Needs Bucket Seats?(Brief Article)
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- Popular Mechanics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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When is a movie more than a movie? When you can feel it as well as watch it. Making you a part of your entertainment is certainly nothing new. Video game makers have been pumping out vibrating seats and authentic-looking-and often frightening--headgear and controllers for years. But Visteon Corp. is the first manufacturer to bring this technology to movie theaters. The company's new MACH Rumble Seats allow you to feel events that take place on the screen. Say a building explodes in the next Schwarzenegger film. As stone and brick hit the ground, you feel the vibrations--in your chair. Tom Cruise races the highways in a third production of Mission Impossible To Understand. ...
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Dictionary definition: rumble seat
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...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 rumble seat in some earlier automobiles, an open seat in the rear, behind the roofed seat, which could be folded shut when not in use Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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