Jobs, as an input to production, by definition add to the cost of whatever the final good or service in question is, compared to doing the same with fewer or no employees.

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While it would be nice to see a better diagramming input solution for the average business graphics user, add-on graphics tablets, such as those from Wacom, make the most sense for professionals.

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Initially he is using transcripts of conversations to train his software, but once it is able to handle queries reliably, he plans to add speech-recognition and speech-synthesis systems to handle the input and output.

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While there are several peripherals that add keyboards and joysticks to smartphones, Sensus goes one step further by adding touch input to a device's entire outer surface.

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But if you already have a pair of old but nice-sounding speakers with 3.5mm input on both, then here's a quick and easy way to add Bluetooth to them.

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