Both devices are about as simple as they come, and feature certain kid friendly enhancements such as dual viewfinders on the camera and volume limited headphones so kids don't get that " iPod ear" too early.

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An historian in charge of the new institute, Maria Schmidt, who has the prime minister's ear, says it is too early to say exactly what research it will do.

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As I wandered through my twenties and early thirties, I kept an ear cocked for any information I might come across about what causes thyroid cancer.

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The Barrons' music caught the ear of the avant-garde scene: In the early 1950s, they worked on a year-long project with composer John Cage.

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"With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear would dial the number, " he said.

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With a number of academic collaborators, they fashioned an early retinal implant from a cochlear implant for the ear with 16 electrodes, each of which stimulated a small area of the retina.

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Early on Anderson assembled advisory panels of insiders, like Robin Cotton, a British ear, nose and throat surgeon renowned for his ability to repair kids' windpipes.

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The researchers do not know if this is because the patch needs to be in place during early development in order to make a difference or if the patch struggles to make it into the inner ear beyond a certain point.

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