It's the least cumbersome of the charging options and it's got a neat trick up its sleeve.

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This provides a means of switching a signal between two wavelengths a neat trick for using bandwidth more effectively.

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Still, it was a neat trick to flip instantaneously to any frame in the movie and watch the action unwind either forward or backward.

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If you thought water into wine was a neat trick, check out this device from a company that believes in very literal names, Air2Water.

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That would be a neat trick.

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Sneaky but dogged, the now-41-year-old Gruber came close to losing funding for his project several times: Some Cargill brass thought PLA would never be more than a neat trick, and plastics buyers said he would never get the cost low enough.

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It's a neat trick.

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It has visual grace notes like a proprietary page-turning animation and a neat little trick in which a virtual catalog card whirls and tumbles its way down into the download queue.

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That is a pretty neat trick considering how little design differentiation there is in the smartphone market right now.

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Since we're not foolish enough to sacrifice our own expensive electronics in the name of culinary science, we caught wind of this neat trick from reader Brett, who decided to have a little fun with his not-under-warranty 'Box after the red lights of death made their dreaded appearance.

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