The app provides a wireless interface with the Spotify program on a home computer so users can manage their music on the go.

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And, two decades ago, that was certainly the case when Apple paired up a quirky all-in-one computer with a breakthrough graphical user interface for the original Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984.

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The on-board ATMega32u4 communicates with your computer using the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol which means that it can act like a keyboard or mouse.

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The drives themselves are hot-swappable with interface modules that handle the physical connection to the computer.

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By introducing the television-like device with expanded computer capabilities and with the same user interface as iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Macs, Apple would benefit, yet again, from the Halo Effect and expand its media influence to the living room.

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For someone with the current brain-computer interface technology, it takes tremendous concentration and effort to type out a short message on a computer screen.

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The company, Thin Film Electronics, has a license with reasearch center PARC (inventor of the graphical user interface and the computer mouse) to market printable microelectronics devices.

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Eliminating the interface would be a step back to the old computer industry, where each machine had a unique interface and was incompatible with other computers.

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