There may be novel ways of accomplishing those goals, but the true novelty typically is limited to some arcane implementation in the software code, not the concept of gathering, manipulating or displaying data.

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At an operations control center in the English city of Derby, a handful of railway engineers spend their days focusing intently on four large wall-mounted computer screens displaying data about the conditions of the engines, the heating and cooling systems and whether a door might be jammed on any of 33 Scottish trains.

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The two models include a remote control and feature a screen saver and a newly designed GUI for displaying meta-data, full-color album artwork and user photos.

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Sporting built-in pressure sensors, an LCD display, and what we're assuming is a powerful sleep analysis engine, the pillow seems to do little more than count the number of times your head moves around at night, displaying the resulting data when you wake up in the morning.

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By displaying a massive real time stream of the data they aggregate via their data engines.

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T-shirts, drink cans and food cartons for displaying health messages or providing sales and restocking data.

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There is also a debate over whether governments should merely supply the raw data or get involved in processing and displaying them too.

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