For example, a connected Roomba might post a status saying that its bin is full.

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With the Industrial Internet, everything from the biggest machines generating power to transformers on power poles can be connected to the Internet, providing status updates and performance data.

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The e-ink screen shows battery and signal status, the number of connected devices and a smiley icon to confirm public mode.

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The Audible Pairing Assistance feature reveals the connection status when another device is connected, while Vibrating Call Alert notifies the user of incoming calls.

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The ultimate status is reserved for the well connected who skip lines and breeze in and out of venues and rub elbows with the tastemakers.

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This display also allows for intuitive multitasking, running external applications like YouTube and most social media platforms, which allows gamers to stay connected to the world by instantly updating their status for friends and followers to see, all on the LCD panel.

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Many people will also be ready to believe that Osama bin Laden, the hitherto obscure Saudi dissident now elevated to the status of the world's most dangerous man, is connected with the camps, and that he played a part in the two embassy bombings.

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When a robot is connected to MyRobots.com, its human master is able to go onto the site to monitor the automatic status updates from the robot.

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