Director James Cameron unveiled 16 minutes of his forthcoming 3-D sci-fi movie Avatar.

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Thanks to spotty Wi-Fi coverage, we'd go a short distance, talking naturally, then halt as the robot lost signal, or veered off.

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The Fidelio Wireless Hi-Fi speakers range has been built with professional grade Hi-Fi drivers, Class-D digital amplifiers, gold plated connectors and lossless audio support so you can hear every detail in pristine quality.

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While there's more experiments and development to go before we ever see a tractor beam at the hospital, the achievement brings us one step closer to the sci-fi future we were always told we'd get, right alongside the personal communicators and jetpacks.

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It wasn't until we'd disabled automatic photo uploading to Eye-Fi View, the company's cloud service, that speeds began to pick up.

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"Trust me - if you gave people at Google free rein to produce TV you'd end up with a lot of bad sci-fi, " he said.

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There were 27 3-D films released in 1953, mostly horror or sci-fi.

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Krishna Kurapati, founder and chief technology officer of Sipera Systems , demonstrated vulnerabilities of several Wi-Fi devices at Wednesday's presentations, crashing a Blackberry and a D-Link phone onstage by hacking their wireless Internet connections.

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"As the number of wireless devices increases in a household, consumers are always looking to expand and strengthen their Wi-Fi coverage into the farthest corners of the home, " said Daniel Kelley, associate vice president of marketing, D-Link Systems, Inc.

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