The Hanleys had roots near their summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and in Palm Beach, Fla.

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It's palm-sized with a single blue LED light indicating a connection, but honestly you don't ever need to look at it: it doesn't need line-of-sight to your handset because it uses a wireless protocol called WiFi Display, which means you can happily leave it dangling out of the way behind your TV.

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It was not the miles of palm-fringed, white sand or the ludicrously blue sea that stunned me the Caribbean is littered with beaches fit for postcards it was the fact that there was virtually no development in any direction and hardly a soul in sight.

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As you can see in the above screenshot, the blue-gray original is replaced with a full spectrum of colorful beaches and bright green palm trees.

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In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.

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