Some items are too fragile to display or no longer fit a museum's mission.
Once stuck in the entrance, the thief paced around and continued to take items from the display.
As part of the restoration, the abbey's top floor is being made into a gallery which will display items relating to its 800-year history, with new learning spaces created for educational groups to use.
According to the patent, you could then be given directions based on GPS coordinates and the buildings "seen" by the watch, while a Goggles-like implementation would be able to identify smaller items in the display.
But other groups say the items should be returned to the Bishop Museum for display.
"In 16th- and 17th-century Flanders, it was all the rage to collect odd items from around the world and display them in ornate verzamel cabinets, " Van Steenbergen-di Resta said.
Presumably, users could customize the iWatch to display or alert on a limited number of items they care most about, because the iPhone or iPad would be close by with the full offering.
Among the items on display here are a copy of the message Jackson sent to the Senate vetoing the recharter of the federal bank and a cartoon of Jackson wielding a broken veto stick.
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The Gandharan collection to be documented and computerized included artifacts on display as well as items in the stores.
Mr Toner said some of the Titanic items are on sale while others are on display for customers, especially tourists "to view and appreciate the legend so connected with Belfast".
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Rubbermaid is now planning a product "summit" with Carrefour in the Netherlands to display such commercial Rubbermaid products as heavy-duty trash cans and other items sold only in North America.
The smaller footprint will allow BBY to display fewer big screen TVs and highlight a carefully edited selection of better selling items such as tablets and mobile phones.
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