As Moore's Law (computing power of a chip doubles every 18 months) continues to unfold and as bandwidth capacity continues to explode, just-turn-on-the-switch, easy-to-use high-tech appliances for specific functions will proliferate.
The earpiece has an on-off switch, a three-stage volume control and uses a rechargeable battery.
With a mechanical keyboard, on the other hand, each key press triggers an actual on-off switch a feeling as solid as flicking on the lights.
Users can simply slide the Instant On-Record switch into its locked position to immediately start capturing video.
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They seem only to care about where the on-off switch is located.
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The expanding world population and the on-going switch towards consumption of meat and dairy produce as incomes rise are already putting pressure on freshwater supplies, which increased growing of biofuel crops could exacerbate.
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All these mutations were done by physically changing the animals' DNA. It wasn't until Johns Hopkins' Beachy and his colleagues remembered reading about the Idaho lambs that they realized cyclopamine could be used as an easier on-off switch for the hedgehog pathway.
If it all sounds too much, Mrs Kramlich points out that living with media art is really no different from living with fixed-image art. (The couple have works by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys in their mock-Tudor San Francisco home.) The difference, she adds with an eye to California's electricity troubles, is that you have an on-off switch and when the images vanish, the house is an artwork of its own.
Apple released a statement today confirming this, but here's where it gets interesting: the company says that "the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed" -- in other words, the guy pulled a bait-and-switch on Apple by serving different content to his app after it had been approved using more PG-rated content.
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Instead of using a controller like on the original PlayStation 2 game, players will tap on-screen buttons to switch between weapons.
Both sides were producing far better fare but the visitors decided on a bold double-switch in the 55th minute, replacing Thomas and Lyle with Richard Offiong and Stephen Ettien, Wednesday's match-winner against Motherwell.
As I blogged at the beginning of the process in September, that included sleazy mortgage brokers introduced by Lending Tree, who either pulled the bait-and-switch on rates or resisted disclosing what fees they would tack on.
It prompted Villas-Boas into making a change with Nicolas Anelka coming on to replace Frank Lampard - a switch that had an instant impact as the Frenchman played in Torres within a minute of the restart for the sort of finish that was his trademark at the height of his powers.
Now, Amazon is extending Whispersync to professionally narrated audiobooks - customers can start reading a book on their Kindle, and seamlessly switch to listening to their corresponding Whispersync for Voice-enabled audiobook from Audible on their phone or tablet, picking up exactly where they left off.
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This could include the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and the annual Christmas lights switch-on.
Last year's switch-on ceremony drew crowds of 20, 000 watching on big screens on the resort's promenade.
The switch-on date for the new Mega service is 20 January, almost exactly a year after Megaupload was shuttered.
Also, before being bought by HSBC in 2003, Household had already come under fire for using bait-and-switch tactics on interest rates.
At the set time, the room's lights and air-conditioning switch on automatically.
Residents now organise an official switch-on ceremony on the first Saturday of December, which this year, was attended by over 300 people.
Rothwell, Morley and others celebrate with their own lights switch-on each year.
The switch-on was carried out by MK Dons chairman Pete Winkleman and former Luton Town manager David Pleat at the National Radio Centre.
Also at the switch-on party at the Tower Festival Headland will be musical acts including Little Mix, Amy Macdonald and Scouting for Girls.
Over the years the project has organised the annual Christmas lights switch-on, run fashion shows and cookery events and removed graffiti from business premises.
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Its new Instant On-Record power and record switch enables people to know that the camera is on and recording with a single push of a switch.
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So about three months ago, Mr. Doukas wrote a program to connect his Fitbit data to an Internet-connected switch on his refrigerator that can shut it down if he doesn't exercise.
He added that a number of campaigners were calling on policymakers and politicians to switch from a target-based policy to schemes that focused on carbon budgets.
In other news, energy-efficient lighting advanced by leaps and bounds this week as we flipped the switch on IKEA's new solar-powered Solvinden lamp and we spotted a crystalline "Stardust" LED lamp made from sugar at the Milan Furniture Fair.
"The fifth base is like a switch - switching on the genes and making cells healthy or diseased, " Alex Olek, the chief executive of Epigenomics, told the BBC.
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