By culling eight favorite genres from about 100, users can build a custom tile layout that, when activated, hunts down a station playing the appropriate tune -- be it in Los Angeles, New York or even Iceland.

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With a 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen display, the laptop has a starting weight of just three pounds4, measures about one inch thin and features a premium raised tile keyboard and a long battery life rating.

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The showroom also features a big mural of about 3, 000 white ping-pong balls on a Venetian-tile entry wall.

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After seeing the Minton tile ceiling at the Bethesda Terrace Arcade in Central Park, Danny Callaghan decided he wanted to find more about other places around the world that tiles had been used.

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