Some first-rate screen heavies further enhance the drama, notably the Maltese actor Joseph Calleia as the gambling boss Nick Varna and the mooselike William Bendix as his sadistic muscle, Jeff.
The figures were then projected on a screen so the women could rate them from 1 to 7.
If you want the passerby to know how well they're doing, the claims explain an on-screen "composition score" that would rate their lining-up skills.
As children play, a monitor on one finger tracks their heart rate and displays it on the computer screen.
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Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou said last month that the yield rate of Apple's touch-screen devices hasn't been satisfactory and has hurt its profitability.
Just like Windows XP, Lindows initially sets the screen to a flickery, eye-busting 60Hz refresh rate.
Each device plugs into Apple's iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, and digitally monitors heart rate and breathing patterns, offering on-screen coaching to get you into a calmer zone.
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This particular e-garment packs quite the selection of hardware, as you can see above -- a trio of LilyPad Arduino boards (and some custom ones), a Bluetooth module, 12 x 12 RGB LED "screen", speakers, bend sensors, a heart rate monitor, shake motors and a power pack.
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Virgin Atlantic's first A330-300 aircraft, which took flight in April, has a new entertainment system that lets flyers rate in-flight movies via the seatback touch screen.
Zone: Set a target for pace or heart-rate (with optional heart-rate monitor) and track progress in a simple full-screen graph throughout a workout.
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To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.
But the companies defend their narrowing of options by saying that if they included thousands of hotels, users would have tough time searching the entire inventory by rate, star rating and location on a tiny smartphone or tablet screen.
Unlike the data we use to surf the Internet and check our e-mails, which can be slowed down and not affect the results, streaming video services need to be able to stream at a certain data rate and while some dropped packets can be tolerated, at some point the movie becomes jerky on the screen, and sometimes entire sections drop out.
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