At first we thought maybe, just maybe we were looking at some slick animation of a static device.

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Instead of operating like other ergonomic chairs, which offer many choices of static positions, Humanscale's device encouraged the sitter to squirm at will.

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Sprint Static IP assigns the same IP address to a device each time that device authenticates and accesses the Internet.

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The developer then has permission to communicate with the device through the Google Cloud, using static, rectangular web pages called Cards, with images and text.

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"While eBook readers have focused on static black-and white images in a single purpose device, we believe incremental content from magazines, newspapers, textbooks and other formats will lend themselves to a more colorful, immersive and interactive experience, more akin to what users have come to expect from the Internet, " Cross writes.

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By measuring the amount of static acceleration due to gravity, the chip knows the angle a device is being tilted at with respect to the earth.

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