While wandering through an attractive neighbourhood, you might ask your mobile device about apartments for rent nearby, the crime rate, local amenities, and so on.

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That made Cyberonics ask whether the device might help depression.

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He believes that what is more likely to happen in reality is for the device to calculate the measurements and then ask a nurse for permission for it to administer them.

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It seems to me that in this age of global personal networking, a Bluetooth device should recognize multiple other devices and just ask me which one I want to use.

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Police said the decisive break came Tuesday, when a motorcycle dealer contacted them to say a man had recently come to his shop to ask about ways of disconnecting the antitheft tracking device on TMAX scooters.

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Look up your broken device to find manuals, issues and solutions from other members, or ask your question and hope an expert comes back with a helpful answer.

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And when I was over in Europe and they were bringing the Zune brand over to represent the delivery of content, the first thing people would ask is, 'Well, are you gonna sell a device?

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Ask Jeff Quon, the California SWAT officer whose steamy sext messages sent from his work device got him fired after they were read by his employer.

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Now, you may ask yourself, why not just go ahead and register it for clearance as a low-level medical device if the company thinks it can receive clearance?

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