Comfortably fitting in an adult's hand, the computer fully meets MIL-STD 810G specifications for ruggedness.
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All that is needed to run it is a mass-produced hand-held computer.
Potentially even more significant is the year-old Symbian alliance a joint-venture between Psion, an innovative British hand-held computer firm, and the three biggest mobile-telephone makers, Nokia and Ericsson of Europe and Motorola.
It not only created the hand-held computer category and the first workable handwriting-recognition system, it also pioneered the whole idea of doing digital tasks -- including e-mail and Internet browsing -- on a device other than the PC.
Initially the services will be prepared for users of the BT Openworld service, but eventually it will be expanded to become a portal that BTs customers can access via almost any device - be it interactive TV, hand-held computer or mobile phone.
More than 40% of Americans spend three or more hours a day staring at a computer or hand-held, according to the American Optometric Association.
The computer was hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who, according to legend, financed the device's construction by selling his HP-65 calculator (co-founder Steve Jobs also sold his VW campervan).
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Image-processing software would be able to convert those hand motions into something the computer would understand.
However, rather than have part of the proof done by hand, and part by computer, he has automated the entire proof, and done so in such a manner that it is a formal proof.
The explosion in computer games had gone hand in hand with an increase in the skills demanded by games, meaning they appealed to adults and well as children.
The differences extend well beyond size: The palm-size devices lack keyboards and color screens and are intended pretty much solely for "to do" lists and telephone numbers, while the hand-helds are surprisingly complete computer systems.
The Net Heads, on the other hand, mostly come out of the computer-and-software world.
On the other hand, demand for medical professionals and computer engineers continues to grow at above-average rates.
Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.
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The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
And they've made two remarkable leaps of their own -- back to hand-drawn animation, although with elaborate computer assists, and away from talking-creature cuteness.
Testing new cars behind closed doors by hooking up engines to computer models, on the other hand, ensures that nobody can take any embarrassing pictures.
It includes optical films for computer monitors, televisions, and hand-held electronics.
From its headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and offices across the United States, and in Europe, Australia, and the Philippines, Computer Aid understands these issues first hand.
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Advocates have traditionally countered that pen interfaces can be operated using one hand, freeing the other one to cradle the computer or hold the handheld.
Messages sent by computer still have to be punched in by hand, and often have to be retyped at the other end.
Through the use of custom animation software and motion capture libraries created by the artists, the work's computer-generated world looks like a moving hand-drawn illustration.
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Then we take pictures of each stone, do hand-drawings and put the pictures and drawings on the computer.
Its products are self-contained, designed not to house computer parts but just to feel good in your hand, and do what you want them to do.
Judge Kelly ordered the 48-year-old, who also faces four charges of taking part in an unnotified public procession and encouraging or assisting offences, to hand over any and all of his mobile phones, any computer he has in his home and not to go within a kilometre of any parade, protest or procession.
On the other hand, Hewlett-Packard has said its deal to acquire rival computer maker Compaq Computer is still on.
Transport minister Norman Baker has said the number of computer-generated announcements on trains has got out of hand and needs to be reduced.
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Oregon's Falcon Northwest Computer Systems offers custom work by an auto painter who hand-sprays 20 layers of paint in any design people want.
On the other hand, the law's significance is likely to diminish, as computer-buyers demand more than just speed from their machines and chip designers tailor their wares accordingly.
On the other hand, the iSlate, a completely solar-powered solar-powered computer tablet targeting at rural communities without access to electricity, may move into markets in the not-so-distant future.
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