Regardless of the user's age or experience with technology, managing the service is effortless, from simple device control to robust home automation.
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The Key Glove offers convenience for gaming, design, art, music, data entry, device control, 3D object manipulation, and a whole host of other applications.
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Coming later this year to select Sony and Toshiba models, the interactive software that's already in eight million homes gains two new features destined to either creep you out, or snag you a twofer on those wings -- broadcast interactivity, and device control.
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In 2010, US figures suggested that "distraction by a device or control integral to the vehicle was reported in 26, 000 crashes".
In addition, because the middleware has been built to open standards, it means that anyone can use the underlying code to build their own user interface for a device to control networked appliances.
When devices are connected a temporary shared content folder is created until your break them apart, alternatively one device can be set as the control or hub device.
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The phone also acts like a remote control device for search and programming.
Others suggest that rather than a control device, the material might be useful to get a handle on population numbers.
The feature that sets the Wii apart from both its competitors and its ancestors is the Wii remote, the device's control pad.
The controller also features a light bar, which means a new PlayStation camera can more easily track the device for motion control.
New units spice things up with the inclusion of the Weather Control Device, Cloning Vats, and the mind controlling Yuri troops, among others.
Weinbaum says it's received and filled 21 orders for its first product, a device that can control the polarization of light (the direction it shoots out).
The requirement for ratification of treaties by two-thirds of the Senate was seen by the framers of the Constitution as an important quality-control device for diplomatic initiatives.
Jiawen Chen and David Kim, both of the Interactive 3D technologies team, showed off, respectively, KinEtre technology for animating scanned objects, and a wrist device for gesture control.
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He also speculated about what control device might be included in various Steambox setups (the systems are said to range in power and price, from low to very high).
"As far as real-world applications at this point, it would be more of a quality-control device, " said researcher Christopher Musto, who presented the device this week to the national convention of the American Chemical Society.
The story provides some other specs on the new console: Edge reports that there will be new version of the Xbox Live online service, and that the box will ship with an updated version of the Kinect gesture control device.
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The device offers external control of Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices over Bluetooth 2.0 or USB, with a full keyboard, 8-inch 800 x 480 LCD and some USB and VGA plugs for tapping into external drives and an external monitor.
When needed, he can go into device mode and have access to all control options for a particular device.
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Once connected, HTC technicians can run remote diagnostics, push common device and network configuration settings, and remotely control the customer's device to resolve issues.
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Spark allows you to control your lights from an Apple iPhone, Android phone, or any web-enabled device, so you can control your lights remotely, from your bed or anywhere in the world.
Some YouTube exec demonstrating how you can turn your mobile device into a remote control for YouTube.
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Parents are able to control the device from a simple, custom-designed smartphone app.
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Soon after the Kinect's 2010 release, hardware hackers wrote code that let them control the device so they could use it for their own projects.
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With Ceton Companion, the mobile device becomes the remote control.
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Threats designed to control a device became common in 2011.
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People who use their phones to make business presentations could also station their handsets near a screen or projector and use gestures to control the device from elsewhere in a room.
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Finally, the security gurus took a device popular in the US, and used non-encrypted ethernet communication between the terminal and other peripherals to hack into the payment device and take root control.
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PenPoint from Go used a unique set of system wide gestures to control the device and had an architecture to allow for documents nested within documents that could be zoomed in and out.
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