In case you don't have your smartphone app handy, the taps are equipped with LED lights to show the water's filter status as well -- blue means clean, yellow means not so much and red means you should probably get a new filter, pronto.

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It attaches to well tubes like a regular filter or is placed in a trench to intercept the contaminated groundwater from a landfill.

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The TV Wonder 650 is based on the Theater 650 chip, including a "motion-adaptive 3D comb filter" as well as noise reduction, and touts the ability to work in Vista systems, even though it's still questionable whether the rest of your system will.

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While paper.li, and similar tools like TwitterTim.es and Flipboard, are helping to filter the information as well as improve their presentation, it will not solve the larger problem by itself.

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We would like to see more options as well for Trending Topics, like being able to filter results and view the data in different ways.

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The phone's new A6 processor also helps out, offering a "smart filter" for better color matching, as well as speedier capture and still capture during video.

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Yet the intentionality implicit in physis is at the very core of the Darwinian concept of adaptation: forming well-functioning machines that can carry an organism through the filter of natural selection.

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While the casual camper may be happy with instant coffee, the Flash Java Kit includes a French-press filter for a more refined brew as well as sample packet of Green Mountain Coffee organic house blend.

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So, going forward, we need the power and voice of UGC news, as well as the curatorial tools and fact checking chops of working Journalists to help us filter signal from noise.

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