If any of the visitors felt leery about it, they always had the option of turning off their device.
Even Nintendo, which is launching its HD Wii U later this year, waited until E3 2011 to show off the device.
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The timing means Asus is likely to show off the device at Computex, a Taiwan-based trade show for the computer industry.
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Also, they will alert shoppers that it is happening, and give them the option of turning off their device while in the mall.
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For instance, if you see that your kid is playing Scribblenauts while he or she is at school, you can remotely turn off the device.
When we first heard MSI was showing off a device at CeBIT called the S30, we assumed it was the successor to the S20, the company's first Windows 8 Ultrabook.
Running off a prototype device, the software was fast, fluid and cleanly laid out.
But a smart thief can simply turn off the stolen device or wipe it clean of apps to prevent being tracked.
To demonstrate, Otellini showed off a mobile device on a set designed to look like a Beijing street corner.
The employee said that only a handful of people were recently allowed to take a new device off campus to use in real life.
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Be courteous and take the device off in locker rooms, public bathrooms, business meetings, movie theaters and anywhere else where wielding a camera would be improper or offensive.
What if some day a rogue state--or even a traditionally friendly country turned enemy--decides to set off a nuclear device in space that results in an electromagnetic pulse destroying our ability to communicate?
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As with the Glo, it's possible to snap the back of the device off, but unlike that larger reader, there's another level underneath that needs to be unscrewed if you want to swap out the battery.
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The jet had the same designation -- Flight 253 -- as the one on which a Nigerian man is accused of attempting to set off an explosive device Friday, said Scott Wintner, a spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority.
While achieving speeds of near 600Mbps sounds mighty tempting, you'd probably be better off avoiding any device that promises to deliver such performance until this decision-making bottleneck clears up -- unless, of course, you just like playing the odds.
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Addressing media this week, the carrier's talking up its blockbuster holiday offering (of which the F700's arguably the flagship) and taking emphasis off the iPhone, which seems to be about the only freaking device left off Voda's 25-plus handset launch schedule at this point.
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Much like it did on the Motorola Photon Q, Sprint has elected to keep its carrier-specific branding off of the device (it's doing this so the handset can make its way to the network's prepaid brands with relative ease), but we were disappointed to see that the SIM card is once again embedded and not accessible without taking the entire phone apart.
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Months earlier, a similar device went off but just missed killing a Saudi minister.
When Avco decided to sell off its cardiac-device business, he bought the patents and technology.
While waiting to take-off again, the device became a conversation piece, recalls Dr. Topol, who is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute.
The explosive device went off in Dugan's hands, IFOR officials said.
InVision, which spun off from a medical device firm in 1990, realised that it could apply the same technology to inspecting luggage at airports for hidden explosives and drugs.
For example the woman, Becca Ordonez, had created a digital processing device using off-the-shelf parts, something that might cost a large company many hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop.
Once a user opts in, the service provider can take the highly granular data thrown off by the mobile device and use it to provide a better, more tailored experience.
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Police say they believe one of the three people killed was the carrier, but they are not sure whether it was a planned suicide attack targeting the lawmaker or whether the device went off accidentally.
Aaron LeMieux showed off his flashlight-size device that one person can use to generate electricity.
It flickers to life on-screen and appears to turn on and off when you shake the device it's on.
Even when plugged in, the device essentially shuts off after a few minutes so the time is not displayed.
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Rather the trials are seen as a device to fend off foreign criticism and deflect calls for an international tribunal.
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