Sony offers up a couple of possible examples, including a crudely scribbled map, a basic math equation and a drawing of a cup of coffee, all of which ship with the device like those pictures of happy families that come with department store picture frames.

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Using this feature, shoppers in a store can snap a picture of a product with their mobile phones, and the photo is automatically uploaded to Amazon.com, which then searches for a similar product.

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Picture an Apple store.

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Now picture a poorly designed Apple store.

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It still doesn't have a ton to show off, but we are now at least getting a better picture of what upstart Adaia has in store for its first smartphone.

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"If they tell you how much they like an item, and take a picture of it and then leave the store and you never hear from them again, it's a pretty good indication that they may be going home and looking for a better price online, " she said.

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Now those models have arrived on Sony's store for pre-order, giving us a complete picture of pricing, specs and availability.

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This new release of data will allow the industry to have a much clearer picture of what games are selling at the store, and which are not.

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Picture Joe the pizza shop franchisee or Marge the dry cleaning store owner with five employees.

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The new RFID tag-toting documents will store all of your personal data, including name, address, nationality, a picture, a digitized fingerprint and just about every other thing crooks would need to take your identity for a joyride.

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