Both the JVC and Sharp units will have an eight-line display with scrolling capability and weigh less than 10 ounces.

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If you don't touch the screen, your news feed, called the Cover Feed, starts to display, automatically scrolling from one post to the next.

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Coming soon: scrolling signs with an LED display.

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The camera's large 3.0-inch LCD provides a beautiful display when shooing and recording video or simply scrolling through menu options.

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From the homepage, scrolling down transforms Airbnb into a vaguely Pinterest-like display of properties and lists.

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That display is also an electromagnetic induction touchscreen for poking at menus and scrolling, but more importantly, it supports stylus input for scrawling notes and annotating PDFs (the only file format it currently supports).

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The rubber band patent covers list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display.

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The capacitive display was extremely responsive to our light finger taps and familiar multitouch gestures like two finger scrolling and pinching to zoom.

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Such mania will often impel one to take out one's phone and swipe madly through a variety of screens with much eye-rolling and sighing -- in an effort to display just how busy and harried one is -- even if, in reality, one is merely scrolling through one's Spotify playlist of Disney music.

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