As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.

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To come up with a quote, a good contractor will do a heat-load calculation to determine what size unit and how much piping to install.

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RLX's software balances the processing load among hundreds of blades and instantly shifts data and workload from a failing blade to a reserve unit.

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When the soundtrack starts to get stale, you have to load a new one, meaning a 20-minute session transferring songs from your PC to the MP3 unit.

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