Yet Sara Cooper's new work, "The Memory Show, " turns out to be a poignant, sophisticated and often humorous musical about dealing with Alzheimer's disease.
Initially, memory problems may show up as forgetting appointments, repeating anecdotes, confusion, misplacing things, and trouble finding the right word in conversation.
There was no question that the tech giant's absence would be felt the following year, the first time in recent memory the Consumer Electronics Show wasn't kicked off by a Microsoft keynote.
It was presented in memory of a Royal Welsh Show stalwart Dr Emrys Evans, 80, who died on the eve of the event's centenary in 2004.
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Memory specs on the box show 1GB DDR2 and 32GB of built-in storage -- 26GB of which is available to the user -- and an additional 25GB free for two years through DropBox.
"People who are more likely to purchase a product show significantly higher memory encoding than those who are less likely, " explains Richard Silberstein, a neuroscientist with the Brain Sciences Institute at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Kingstron was showing many flash memory products at the CES show but a particularly interesting product was their 1 TB USB flash drive.. The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator will be available with 512 GB and 1 TB storage capacity.
He will say that thieves targeting commemorative plaques and memorials "show an utter disregard for the memory of the courageous men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country".
Comfortable in many cultures without being a prisoner of any single one, Elias Khoury is always seeking to defend the human rights of all and to show the importance of experience and memory for all cultures.
Can anyone think of a female anti-hero from any popular television show in recent (or distant) memory?
Perhaps the most eloquent fabric in the show is the one Fortuny made in memory of his late father.
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We expect to see some of these companies present and show their products at the 2013 Flash Memory Summit August 21-23, 2012 ( www.flashmemorysummit.com).
The screens show his drawings and images exploring time and memory.
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While Loftus couldn't definitively prove that repressed memories weren't real, she could show that it was possible to implant a memory of a traumatic event that never happened.
Sunday's vote will show whether Ms Ascanio is right and the memory of Mr Chavez is powerful enough to drive his hand-picked successor to a victory in the polls.
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That is, as the disease progresses in the brain, those who have a greater "reserve" do not show symptoms of Alzheimer's -- memory loss and impairment of day-to-day functions -- as quickly.
This year's show promises to be grander than those in recent memory, which suffered in attendance and scope in part because of the economic recession.
Studies show surprise triggers the release of adrenaline in the brain that heightens memory formation.
Neuropsychology studies show that compulsive hoarders have deficits in executive functioning, attention, memory, organization and emotional regulation.
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Sid Simmons, a 74-year-old blind man, will also show off his talent, paintings of scenes of his youth from memory.
Imaging studies on depressed humans show shrinkage in their hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning, memory and emotion that is also a region where much neurogenesis occurs.
Earlier this month the BBC apologised after a memory stick containing the personal details of hundreds of children who had applied to take part in a TV show was stolen from a vehicle.
"But what is really new in this case is that we could show that in such a severe and dense amnesia there's still an island intact of memory, the musical memory, " he says.
Named for the product's "utopic vision, " ZionEyez now has a prototype with a more grounded spec list, including a 720p camera and 8GB of memory, along with micro-USB and Bluetooth connectivity for livecasting to Qik or LiveStream -- The Truman Show style.
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Canada's Rogers Wireless has made the lives of prank callers and shy or paranoid individuals a bit harder (and the rest of ours a bit more convenient) with the launch of Name Display, a new service that'll show a caller's name even if it's not stored in the phone's memory.
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