We hate to reopen old wounds and all, but a good friend of Engadget's (who asked to be referred to as "a former senior Rio employee currently enjoying the Silicon Sun") did us the service of sending over actual device shots of the Rio Cubic, the working title for what was to be the Carbon C 30GB player.

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If you were a security researcher or a digital forensics person you would hook your device up to a WiFi network that you controlled, and you would watch the traffic your device is sending.

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The device can also respond by sending 10 volt electrical pulses to block the signals' path to the brain, tricking the brain into thinking there is no pain.

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Version 0.5 of the Epiphany Eyewear will contain a wifi chip, enabling the device to pair with a phone or tablet, sending the camera feed in real-time to a mobile Augmented Reality app or a social video app or to our site yougen.tv.

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Giving the consumer an option to scan a QR code which leads them to a website that is not optimized for the device they use to scan it is like sending someone with a broken arm in to get a full-body physical.

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The application is expected to run on any device capable of sending and receiving video, including cellphones, notebooks and tablets.

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In an IoE world, every ambulance and fire truck, every medical device, even clothing people wear, could talk to the network, sending information back to a database that can then interact with other databases.

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The company has begun sending out consoles to the first supporters of the project - while other interested gamers can pre-order the device.

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Replacing a plastic device with a mobile device capable of receiving as well as sending a variety of information in a visual manner fundamentally changes the purchasing experience, and for the better.

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