The VivoTab further distinguishes itself with its 8MP rear camera (as opposed to the 720p rear camera on the Surface) and an additional 7 hours of rated battery life via its docking station.

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Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.

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According to Teruyuki Kato, the project's leader, this arrangement can measure a buoy's vertical motion with an accuracy of a few centimetres, which will pick up dangerous tsunamis in the open ocean where they are mere ripples on the surface (they rear up into killer waves only when they reach the shallows).

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The rear of the Z10 sports a rougher surface to help you hold the device, and just behind the BlackBerry log is the NFC antennae.

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The rear of the Z10 sports a hi-grip surface to help you hold the device and prevent from slipping , and just behind the Apple logo is the NFC antennae.

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The volumes and cab-rearward profile of the BRZ are classically sporty (the Scion will vary only in the front and rear clips and lighting instruments), but there's not a lot of surface excitement here.

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