Issued today, the USPTO's database details a messaging system where users can follow each other and display messages without a unique recipient.
Hypothetically the tech could be used to display personalized messages as well.
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Patrol cars will be stationed on motorway bridges and highway matrix signs will display speed enforcement messages.
It can connect to your Android phone or iPhone via Bluetooth and display incoming text messages and other notifications.
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With that done, I downloaded the mod, following the multi-step installation procedure and praying that my screen wouldn't display any sinister messages.
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Our streets, parks, plazas, and subways are for everyone, yet take a quick look at the messages on display and it seems like we only care about sexy beers and fruity shampoos.
The Home software also can display SMS communications and Facebook messages as "chat heads" that hover over a user's screen regardless of what app is being used, another feature that places Facebook at the center of consumers' online interactions, no matter the medium.
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Of course, you'd be able to privately view messages inside the bezel, but since the display would also be transparent, you could see through it to landmarks or object around you.
Stretching 134 feet long and 55 feet high and weighing 52 tons, the scoreboard is the largest high-definition video display in the world, delivering crisp instant replays and ad messages plus game timing, player stats and, of course, animation to whip the home crowd into a frenzy.
Rather than use a large display that would make the watch bulky, Timex has opted to scroll messages across the screen, and has a setting that controls the speed of the scrolling.
For starters, the novel G-Shock boasts Bluetooth 4.0, allowing it to pair nicely alongside iOS devices and display plenty of notifications on its itty-bitty screen -- including phone calls, text messages and emails.
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Those qualities lend them a special fascination today, when our written messages are instantly and infinitely reproducible, and hence far easier to preserve than the precious documents on display here, yet by the same token immeasurably poorer in personal meaning.
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