"Grooming is so much more important once it does get hot, " says mobile pet groomer Michael Bryant of Snazzy-Pet USA in Atlanta.

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The mobile positron emission tomography (Pet) scanner visits the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) three times a week.

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If that mobile device has a name like a pet, you may want to keep it secret.

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The positron emission tomorgraphy (Pet) scanner is housed in a mobile unit at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI).

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Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app launching Thursday for Android devices.

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Mobile MIM fuses and displays diagnostic images from all manner of technologies (MRI, CT, PET, etc.).

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Mobile-phone users have also taken a shine to such games as Wireless Pets (about the trials of pet ownership), as well as such tried-and-tested time-killers as Hangman and Blackjack.

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