Next on the drawing board: a digital machine to help you sleep better.
Hardware for a digital answering machine is also built in, although that functionality won't be available until later this summer via a software upgrade, available over the Internet.
The clinics will feature examining rooms with "everything wired for video" including ophthalmoscopes, a digital X-ray machine and a skin camera for examining potentially malignant blemishes.
To try to sell it, Jobs made a short digital film to show what the machine could do.
Flash memory offers fast ways to cache and serve up digital content to support high usage virtual machine environments.
Rather than the illusion of control that cabinets of curiosities offered centuries ago by facilitating an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world, the dreamlike microcosm in "Ghosts in the Machine" anticipates a dematerialized digital culture.
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Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next.
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Feed in a digital manuscript, and in a few minutes the machine produces a bound paperback, complete with a color cover.
For many years the company dominated the copy-machine market, but its leaders failed to pay attention to disruptive technologies and new products, such as fax machines and digital copiers, which undermined the entire copy-machine market.
The videos focus on three key industries with significant potential for intelligent systems - healthcare, retail and manufacturing - all with unique needs and requirements for devices, from kiosks to human machine interface panels (HMI), digital signs and POS terminals.
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In May 2005, when he was stepping down as chairman of Intel, Grove asked Eric Dishman, the head of research at what would later become Intel's digital health division, if he could develop a machine that would objectively measure whether a patient was getting worse.
However, as newer video recorders are likely to include digital capability, this should only affect people with a machine that is several years old when the switch over occurs.
An on-board computer gets the machine's position from satellites and reads a digital blueprint from a chip.
When users boot up the machine, they will find the "Perdana" digital user interface which opens a wide variety of modern gaming features such as selecting systems, button reassignment and other features that will be named at the Midwest Gaming Classic.
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The film is beautiful, if predictable, wrought with iconic Cartier imagery and feats of digital technology (the panther hitching a ride atop an antique flying machine is a nice touch).
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But as more portable devices--like digital cameras and camcorders--come with FireWire capacity, the Windows machine cartel may consider small concessions too keep the high-end digerati happy.
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Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
The software giant pledged to fix the update but its efforts became more urgent when security firm EEye Digital Security discovered that the crash circumstances could be exploited to run malicious code on that machine.
While both companies have common roots in the computing business, Apple under Mr. Jobs has built itself into a profit machine through a string of hit consumer electronics products, starting with the iPod digital media player, followed by the iPhone, plus the iPad earlier this year.
Digital Equipment and Data General (which inspired a bestselling book called The Soul of a New Machine) got rich selling them.
That should unleash some healthy competition: Within a few years it may not be uncommon to buy a set-top digital box that can not only decode cable transmissions, but is also a web browser, a game machine and a DVD player.
With a slot for Sony's MemoryStick memory card, users of the company's digital still cameras will be able to view images directly on the Clie and, unlike the Palm devices, the machine also includes a video viewer.
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