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SIMpill, a South African firm, makes a small device that clips on to a medication bottle and sends a text message to a central computer whenever the cap is removed. 
            					  		    					
           					
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If no message arrives, the central computer sends a text-message reminder to the patient, or to a family member or carer. 
            					  		    					
           					
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Finally, since you are online, a Siri enabled TV could answer whether your iPhone or computer has received a new message, and let you respond accordingly. 
            					  		    					
           					
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For someone with the current brain-computer interface technology, it takes tremendous concentration and effort to type out a short message on a computer screen. 
            					  		    					
           					
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And even when this happens, most of the viewing goes on through a browser as opposed to actually downloading a message to a local computer. 
            					  		    					
           					
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When the worm infects a computer it sends out the "lol" message to the user's contact list. 
            					  		    					
           					
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As he sits at his computer, his phone buzzes with a text message. 
            					  		    					
           					
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The server would then send back a message that only the unique Pico computer would be able to decrypt with its own secret key assigned to that service. 
            					  		    					
           					
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But the fact that the prosecution won its computer sabotage case last month sends out a good message, according to Ed Lugo, a special agent in the U.S. Secret Service's Electronic Crimes Branch. 
            					  		    					
           					
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It runs continuously on your computer but every hour the programme flashes up a message encouraging people to take a break and rest their eyes. 
            					  		    					
           					
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When David wants to send a video message to someone, he records it either on his built-in computer Web cam or on a Flip camera. 
            					  		    					
           					
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To entertainment-company executives, who had watched the computer-software companies' market capitalisations outstrip theirs many times over, this was a seductive message. 
            					  		    					
           					
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