He spends an hour on the elliptical machine in his home office basement cranking through calories and some 150 emails.
But standing in a three hour queue for a cash machine was a definite festival lowlight for him.
The company also says it will introduce a new semiconductor chip that will increase the number of base pairs its machine can read out in one two hour run to 1 billion.
However, in one test when the throttle was applied, it took 13 minutes for a second machine to be infected, and half an hour for a third.
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And the machine can be loaded up for a 24-hour run in 15 minutes, and then ignored.
The goal was a machine that could brew 100 12-ounce cups in an hour.
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Slingshot is a vapor-compression water-purification machine that can produce about 30 liters of 100% pure distilled water per hour using the same power as a hair dryer consumes.
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After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
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More than an hour and a half into the presentation, Sony has yet to show the PlayStation 4 machine.
By renting out cloud-based computers by the hour, companies could run any OS, software or programming language on a powerful virtual machine.
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