It is hard to believe that allegedly smart people could have agreed to such a device.
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Dell has been hinting about the existence of such a device since October 2010.
Cringe if you like, but it's hard to argue with the business case for such a device.
Even former CEO John Sculley joined the chorus calling for Apple to produce such a device.
Such a device would essentially be a smartbook, he noted, because it would share the same basic characteristics.
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Motorola is also said to be considering using Windows CE as the operating system for such a device.
Such a device could be yet thinner than the current Air and have an even longer battery life.
The company has discussed such a device with its major manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.
X-ray detectors for identifying impurities in semiconductor chips (among other things) would be interested in such a device.
Still, it's easy to imagine the potential of such a device, if, of course, it ever becomes a reality.
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An athlete doing training would use such a device to do one set of 30 breaths twice a day.
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Using such a device to look at active biological molecules is difficult, however.
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Hawkers of market-timing services claim to have such a device and they will sell you their predictions for a fee.
Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said such a device was the number one request Apple received from U.S. residents.
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But one key unresolved question for the category is a whole is what will be worth watching on such a device.
If the copying of a digital work is not allowed, for instance, such a device will refuse to make a duplicate.
Adobe is not saying when such a device will actually be produced.
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The success of the Pebble watch evidences demand for such a device.
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Google is expected to sell such a device through retailers and in its online store, people familiar with the matter have said.
For those who haven't gotten around to picking one up, however, the entry price of such a device is likely a deterrent.
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Dr. Peter Schreiber of the Fraunhofer Institute told the BBC that such a device could be eventually embedded into cellphones or PDAs.
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Or it could require all drivers to have their current car retrofitted with such a device, which would be a large one-time expense.
The Wall Street Journal reported in February that Apple was testing such a device but hadn't yet decided whether to proceed with production.
And does a person communicating using such a device still require a guardian to make legal and medical decisions on his or her behalf?
Although phones, or parts of phones, have been sent into space before, running an entire satellite through such a device has not been tried previously.
Microsoft also is continuing to test its own smartphone, although it isn't clear whether it will bring such a device to market, component suppliers said.
Such a device would be able to carry out many calculations in parallel, with each of the superposed states acting as part of the calculation.
If successful, such a device could be implanted just under the skin, or even worn in a jacket, to power a device, says Dr. Ha.
For many disability campaigners, such a device cannot come soon enough.
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