Heighway Pinball's solution is to introduce inductive switch technology: solid state sensors beneath the playfield, well out of the way of flying steel balls, which are triggered when a ball passes by without any physical contact.

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With a mechanical keyboard, on the other hand, each key press triggers an actual on-off switch a feeling as solid as flicking on the lights.

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As this is being written, massive outages in its service are spreading throughout the network, whose rock-solid reliability kept many IT leaders from being willing to make a switch.

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Sublime back-play seemed doomed to failure confronted by a solid defence - but Evans and Jordan Turner-Hall executed a lovely loop-switch that released Monye to score on the left.

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If Google rolled their OS efforts behind Android, and worked on a solid desktop distribution for Android, how many manufacturers would be ready to make a switch beyond a single alternative OS machine in their portfolio?

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