Use the grasper to pick up the finger-size appendix, fire the stapler across its base and across the vessels feeding it, drop the severed organ into a plastic bag, and pull it out.

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During this exam, a flexible tube containing a small transducer about the size of your index finger is guided down your throat.

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Soon, rows of tables outside the church are enveloped by youngsters offering their personal details, including the size of their ring finger.

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With all due respect to Steve Jobs as an innovator, how many more times can he mount the big stage, tap icons and re-size pictures by flicking his finger while preaching world domination, before it becomes white noise?

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Other outrageous offerings include subterranean nightclubs equipped with dance floors and DJ booths, soundproofed indoor shooting ranges accessible by finger-print identification, and outdoor life-size garden mazes and labyrinths.

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As for the keyboard dock's built-in trackpad, it responds surprisingly well to two-finger scrolls, but the pad's tiny size means you won't actually have much space to pull off those kinds of gestures.

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