They also found two kitchen timer units, two toggle switches attached to the timers in a plastic lunch-type box and a vehicle battery in the front passenger foot well.

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Yes, that thin TranSleeve cover snaps on in a manner similar to a Type Cover, but there are no keys attached there.

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If you forget even once to enable your protections, or click on the wrong link, or type the wrong thing, and you've permanently attached your name to whatever anonymous service you're using.

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While we spent much of our testing with the keyboard attached, to experience the thing as a tablet we popped off the Type Cover and headed to the couch, spending hours web surfing while inane TV programming slowly rotted our gray matter.

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There's intrigue in this type of charging because as long as you have the proper sleeve or battery cover attached, you can easily charge your gizmo just by placing it on a compatible pad.

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This type of tag, however, requires a buoy to carry the aerial, and this is attached to the shark by a ten-metre-long line. (The line is needed because the sharks themselves rarely break the surface, and the transmitter cannot signal to the satellite from under water.) Two American biologists, Scott Eckert and Brent Stewart, from the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute in San Diego, have had some success with satellite tracking.

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