Running off a prototype device, the software was fast, fluid and cleanly laid out.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung showed a prototype device incorporating Youm.
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The prototype device is also only 6.8mm (0.27 inch) thick and weighs 385g (13.6 ounces) -- perfect for slipping into school bags.
The medical-device giant Medtronic already has a small group working on a prototype device to see what would be needed to make optogenetics therapy possible.
Gates showed a prototype device that is a 20-gigabyte hard drive with a small video screen, suitable for storing and playing music and TV shows.
The prototype device is called the Joint Battle Command-Platform Handheld.
In fact, the company has already implemented the idea in a prototype device here at MWC, destined to appear in commercial products around the middle of this year.
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The prototype device, shown off at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, is equipped with various connection technologies such as GPS, 3G and wifi - and has an LED display on top of the handle.
The Sunshine to Petrol project is testing a prototype device called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (called CR5 for short) which turns CO2 into carbon monoxide which could then form part of a liquid fuel.
For the second time in seven months, a prototype device has failed testing at the hands of the FCC, although this time it wasn't because it was interfering with TV signals -- it just wouldn't stay powered on.
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IBM, who first floated the idea last year, is now sharing some more details about its prototype device that, while only able to store 4Kb of data (roughly half the text of this post in ASCII), is said to be able to retain that for 10 years.
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a prototype plasma device which creates ozone to kill germs in packaged food.
We were told that we were looking at a prototype of the device, but the crumminess seemed pretty uniform across multiple Zios we tested.
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He came and showed me a prototype of the device last May, and the reaction to a short video we made showed how much untapped enthusiasm there was for some kind of successor to the BBC Micro.
The executives had brought with them the prototype for a new device, a two-way pager that could send and receive e-mail wirelessly.
Dr McKendry is working with Imperial College London, Cambridge Medical Innovations, Sphere Medical Ltd and BionanoConsulting on the three-year project to develop the prototype hand-held device for clinical trials.
Two common exceptions: If the vendor is already working up a prototype for a similar device, or if the invention is considered part of the "public domain, " then all bets are off.
Now, the company finally has a working prototype of its first device -- one that's not only rugged, but with both cellular and satellite connectivity to keep the more adventurous among us connected at all times.
Still in its early prototype stages, the device is an attempt to do for 3D scanning what the Replicator and its ilk have done for printing -- i.e. democratize the process in such a way that makes it affordable and user-friendly enough to make it an appealing prospect for hobbyists and later consumers.
After getting some quality time with a prototype of the new device, we found the copper-colored buttons and speaker grill running along its right side to form an intriguing design, but the overall fit and finish -- not to mention the lack of a backlight for the screen -- demonstrated that it wasn't quite ready for primetime.
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Germany's Siemens also used the show here to show off the SIMpad, a prototype WebPad-like tablet device.
Given that this is an extremely early prototype, the E Ink device had a lot of bugs when we played with it: force closes, reboots and slow response are among the things we noticed.
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There is, however, the slight problem of the Lumia 920 not yet shipping: unless you've been blessed with a prototype of the Windows Phone 8 device, Apple and Google are the only ones that have their latest navigation software on a phone you can actually buy.
Sony's no stranger to the odd e-ink device, but its latest prototype creation isn't targeted at the bookworm, it's intended to educate.
That all changed today when a world's first working, Moorestown prototype (which we think is the device above) hit the stage at Intel's Taipei, Developer Forum in the familiar hands of Anand Chandrasekher.
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The person who saw the prototype of the new iPhone said the device was significantly lighter than the iPhone 4 and had an edge-to-edge screen that could be manipulated by touch, as well as a virtual keyboard and voice-based navigation.
While just a prototype, the leaked early marketing materials for the device had tech observers excited.
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And while several iPhone prototypes made it into court filings, a former Apple employee has shared a very early iPhone prototype from 2005 with Ars Technica that shows a device that looks remarkably like the iPad.
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Of course, while this aligns with specs we heard about earlier, this device looks to be very much a prototype (where's the silver ring around the bezel) so don't take this as the final word on the matter, ok?
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The smartphone prototype is LG's first full-touch CDMA device with built-in Mobile DTV circuitry.
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