Such wearable computers combine physical reality with augmented video, text or other types of data to provide a distinct interactive experience.

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Politeski said Samsung, for now, has avoided these types of text-you applications because, in market surveys, consumers said they're already suffering from information overload.

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The need for speed of e-communications has led to some of this abbreviation in language, as well as the rise of other metadata and media types within the text of our conversations.

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An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.

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Features include importing of images, four customizable pen types for drawing, adding text and applying color themes.

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While many of these will be the old-fashioned text message, Forrester predicts that new message types that let people include images and sounds will also gather fans.

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We started relational, then objects, then text, then XML, now a lot of different types of unstructured data types all going into the Oracle database.

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It natively handles JSON, XML, and plain text, and a plug-in architecture allows you to add support for other document types.

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