Soon the window glass becomes cool to touch as the train climbs more than 1, 000 metres into a bare, otherworldly landscape of boulders and snowdrifts, navigating beautiful but treacherous mountain country through high passes and tunnels hewn from solid rock.

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Among the new technologies on display is a device that transforms the front window of a store into a giant touch screen.

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' While watching a video, with the touch of a button, the video will become a floating window on the display.

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Ray looked out of the bedroom window, tilted his chin, opened his mouth just a touch, and tapped his fingernail against his bottom teeth.

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Speaking of settings, Samsung is proud of an expanded panel of one-touch settings icons you can get to by pulling down the Android notification window from the top edge of the screen.

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