Maybe it's an act of desperation, but they have concluded that instant feedback is one way to cope with the pressure for shorter product cycles and with the high failure rate of new products.

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We already have force-feedback steering wheels, guitar-shaped controllers and pressure-sensitive dance pads.

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While making those decisions, they also found themselves under pressure from clients who were demanding short-term success and daily feedback in the form of share price movements that caused even the market professionals to doubt their own reasoning.

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In the weather, we can see positive feedback when a series of hot, sunny days create a static high pressure system which keeps storms from moving in to cool things off.

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Above that is a circular speaker that provides feedback based on your movement (detected by internal accelerometers and gyroscopes, along with pressure sensors in the sole).

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That will raise the sea level, increasing the pressure at the bottom and thus stabilising clathrates there in other words, there will be negative feedback.

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In an interview on Al Jazeera, Khanfar said the network received constant feedback from governments and would review complaints and make changes when justified, but he denied bending to political pressure.

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