Furthermore, Uniformity Tape helps device manufacturers meet the growing number of energy efficiency standards around the world.

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After coming to the realization that the manner of applying kinesiology tape in the roll format was inefficient, Dr. Kevin Jardine began the process of creating an alternative device, which is called SpiderTech Tape , and is being used by many Olympians in the 2012 Games.

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Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).

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And there are many game developers today who first tinkered and programmed on this device using BASIC code, tape drives and floppy discs.

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The court also heard Ms Pryce got a recording device from the newspaper to try to tape Huhne over the phone admitting to the offence.

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Oh, that was a device that would allow us to record to tape.

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Aside from magnetic tape (which generally has a slower time to access information) there is no more cost effective storage device to keep all this content on than HDDs.

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They have sued SonicBlue over the ReplayTV device, which records TV programming like a traditional VCR but uses a computer hard drive instead of tape.

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