As you can see above, the device is actually quite small, and most smartphones would have quite a bit of trouble fitting into a box that size.
The box, the size of a washer-dryer, was part of a signal system that lets drivers and dispatchers know where trains are.
Encrypted data, held in a storage box about the size of a text book, will be retrieved about every four to six months.
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There, among 12-foot high stacks of old oscilloscopes and signal-conditioning gear, Williams points to a clunky black metal box about the size of an underwear drawer.
What the company has to show for itself today is a black box about the size of an old VHS cassette which, standing upright, can project a 10-inch wide image onto any surface.
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Connected to a TV and stereo, the book-size HP box draws entertainment right out of the computer and lets you manage it from onscreen menus.
Leandro Erlich's "Stuck Elevator" (2011) is more complex: A freestanding box, about the size of an elevator shaft, it reveals, through an open door, the elevator's lifting mechanism and, through a gap at the bottom, the interior of the cabin, with a newspaper on the floor.
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My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.
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Their technocratic inclinations, however, box them into one-size-fits-all rules and regulations, which limit private alternatives.
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They adapted Wingfield's original version to play on a rectangular court and over the next few years made further changes to lower the net, reducing the size of the box into which the service could be hit and allowing overarm serving.
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There's even a small suede box that's the perfect size to hold a few macarons.
"What was buried of him was the size of the shoe box, " he said.
Slit open the bag and mist the contents with water, and pearl oyster mushrooms will begin to grow, until they are spilling out the side of the box, reaching their full-grown size in about 10 days.
Sony, for its part, is working to make that secondary display massively more appealing -- the company's latest generation of high-end camcorders adds an HDMI input, with an option to display content from any compatible source (a full-size adapter ships in the box).
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With the potential set-top box market expected to be five times the size of that for personal computers, Sun sees a bigger opportunity in this marketplace, Brumfield adds.
Out-of-the-box, the LeafPresenter provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with a feature-rich mobile ordering and checkout device capable of accepting payments via their choice of processor or next-generation payment methods such as PayPal, LevelUp and other mobile wallets.
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But the prevailing theory begins with a scam artist buying an iPad, replacing it with something of similar size and weight and then repackaging the box so it looks ready for the sales floor once again.
On televisions, this is achieved via a small set-top box -- a prototype of which approaches the size and noise level of a mini-fridge -- that plugs into the video source and the TV and converts the video in real-time with virtually no latency.
Some say, it was the side-by-side placement on the printing press, some say the pockets in the wallets were the limiting factor, there is some limited indication that the card size was to match the pocket tobacco box to which these cards were held with a rubber band.
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While the box grid imposes order, it is challenged by the size and proportion of the niches and by the asymmetry of the dominant horizontals and verticals.
Merrill Lynch is already predicting a lackluster season for big-box discounters Wal-Mart Stores and Target, whose sheer size makes it difficult to drive year-over-year sales.
Now, auto layout interprets UILayoutAttributeBottom as the bottom of the text box (presuming the label is not bigger than its intrinsic content size) and UILayoutAttributeBaseline as the baseline of the text.
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The restaurant also has a gigantic Barbie box allowing customers to step in and feel like a packaged up, life-size Barbie.
"We have to provide the hard drive size and the opportunity for them to be able to, out of the box, utilize that content, " he argues.
That was followed by his showing me the enormous Motorola service box that was to be installed in my apartment to handle the service (3x the size of what was in my previous apartment for the exact same service ) and his suggestion that it go on the living room wall!
But the Business in a Box shows that the company is still focusing on getting the service out to small and mid-size businesses.
He has plans to expand Rising Star in the coming years, tripling the size of the circuit by 2013 to capture about 30% of the country's box office.
Symbols indicating content suitable for over-15s or 18s have recently been doubled in size, and the gaming industry decided voluntarily to introduce written warnings of adult content on the game box.
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Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box restaurant chain, from 1977 until his death in 1994, but court documents don't disclose the size of the couple's fortune that apparently funded O'Connor's gambling habit.
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