"It is operated by a single push button and could not be more simple: one push to display the time, two for the calendar day and three for the seconds, " says designer Marco Biegert.

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One allows users to tie multiple accounts to one card, and lets buyers choose the account they want to use with the push of a button.

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She left the car in one fluid motion, not even pausing to push the locking button on her security key, and entered the school and walked urgently down the hall, past the display of photographs of "Astronaut Moms and Dads" grinning in their orange pressure suits as they held up models of the space shuttle.

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