After you scan a ReapTag, you will be asked to spin a virtual slot machine to receive a prize from that business.
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Under Arizona law, they can sell their slot-machine rights to another tribe, and so receive a modest income from the Salt River Pima, who enjoy a better location near Phoenix.
Anyone who sends a tweet to the machine while standing in front of it will receive a free sample of BOS Ice Tea, a popular organic beverage made in South Africa from Rooibos, an indigenous plant which locals have used to make traditional tea for hundreds of years.
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Seattle-based Zipwhip's Textspresso can send and receive, allowing coffee drinkers to text their order directly to the machine to pick up later.
The innovation announced today takes advantage of the machine-to-machine capability and expands it to other devices on the network that can receive IP based commands.
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The machine is always connected, so users can continue to, for example, receive email even after the lid is closed.
These new suites still receive security patches, as they always have, and can only be installed on one machine and upgrades require installing whole new versions.
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Kind of how you'd install an operating system, automatically receive some baseline functionality using least-common-denominator hardware drivers, then install specialized drivers for your machine's video, sound, and network cards?
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Spectators watch the proceedings behind soundproof glass, and receive audio on a 40-second delay so that a court security officer can switch on a white noise machine while classified information is being discussed.
Whether his finely crafted electoral machine can overcome Americans' ambivalence about their president and withstand the advertising bludgeoning Mr Obama is about to receive is another question.
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