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Gadget


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  • (1) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (2) With sales of tablets, smartphones and gadgets predicted to soar this Christmas , many British households will soon be temples to the latest technology.
  • (3) Sony has announced a new cloud-based gaming service, which will bring classic PlayStation titles to a range of gadgets, from tablet computers to televisions.
  • (4) The first C had been into gadgets, including building a grandfather clock that stood outside his office at Vauxhall Cross.
  • (5) Alas for them, the gadget doesn’t let them know that all of their vainglorious conversations are already being recorded by said Old Bill.
  • (6) Storing details of everything you do isn't a new concept, but a new breed of apps and gadgets is helping… 1 Lifelogging apps for smartphones There are several dedicated lifelogging apps for smartphones in 2014, taking advantage of the data and sensors inside your device.
  • (7) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
  • (8) Giant screens blare out ads for electronic gadgets and energy drinks.
  • (9) The sector is partly driven by increasing global demand for minerals such as tin and tungsten, which are used widely in the construction of high-technology gadgets.
  • (10) The iPad is the first mass-market mobile device to use micro-Sim cards, which are smaller than the current range of Sim cards and were designed for small consumer gadgets such as Birmingham-based Lok8u's range of wireless-enabled wrist watches.
  • (11) Aberdare has a covered market near the station, where fruit and vegetables and meat and fish are for sale, alongside knitting wool and clothes and gimmicks and gadgets.
  • (12) Their “biobattery”, which releases energy from sugar instead of chemicals such as lithium, used in batteries found in today's electronic gadgets, could replace conventional disposable or rechargeable batteries – and is cheaper, refillable, biodegradable and more environmentally friendly.
  • (13) Best gadget: "Revolving number plates, naturally"; making the Aston Martin valid for Britain, France and Switzerland.
  • (14) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
  • (15) Translated into English, that means billions of gadgets, each one of them connected to the internet and communicating madly with one another without much in the way of human intervention.
  • (16) How to hack household technology and turn everyday gadgets into radical new devices will be this year's theme of Britain's most prestigious public science lectures.
  • (17) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
  • (18) Indeed there's no particular reason why we'll be working these things via screens; we've already got plenty of those and the gadget companies are working hard to find other ways to communicate.
  • (19) His appointment speaks volumes about where Channel 5's ambitions lie – in cost-effective formats and those with spin-offs, such as The Gadget Show.
  • (20) It is obviously understandable because of its very nature; nevertheless, think about how much more focused on content quality everybody would be if they were not to deal with new gadgets every month or so.

Whatchamacallit


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