Separately, the company is also releasing a smart power strip, which logs your energy use for various gadgets, and then sends that data to an iOS app. (An Android version is in development.) No word on how much it'll cost in the US, though in Europe it'll cost 64 euro, tax included.

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Since Indian ATMs don't require the double identification of RFID smart card and magnetic strip, just the strip, they were able to manage quite a bit of cash before a vigilant security guard spotted them making withdrawls from multiple cards in succession.

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In the recently expanded cemeteries around Ndola, several graves have been dug up: local thieves are so desperate that they strip fresh corpses of the smart suits in which they are buried.

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Also, the card I have is not a smart version, it just has a magnetic strip.

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Across the bay, fancy yachts and speed boats crowd the shores of the Ilha, a once almost deserted strip of sand used mainly by poor fishermen, on which smart restaurants and nightclubs for the new elite are now springing up.

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They also, in a smart bit of PR, launched a browser plug-in for Twitter users who wanted to strip out any mention of SXSW from their social media stream during March this year.

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