On Wednesday and Thursday markets rallied back strongly when rumors hit the wires that Papandreou might be back-tracking on his demand for a public referendum.

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The speakers themselves are about 14 inches tall and suspended on motorized wires, which can be raised and lowered inside their enclosures by remote control.

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Engineers have been particularly successful with inductive technology, in which a smartphone with an inductive receiver loop embedded into the device itself can be placed on a wireless pad and have its batteries fully replenished without the need for wires or an electrical connection.

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This means that, with a Bluetooth-enabled speaker like the ones shown here, playing your music without wires or a docking station couldn't be simpler: Push a button on the speaker, select it when the speaker's name pops up in your gadget's Bluetooth menu and music begins streaming instantly.

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"I'm happy that I'm a lot better off than so many other people I see on TV, clinging to electric posts, electric wires, so they won't be carried away (by the water), " she said.

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Stronger steel usually requires tradeoffs on other properties, like ductility, a metal's ability to be shaped into forms like sheets and wires.

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However, recent reports from the wires suggest that a bailout could be in place by this weekend, saving the country from defaulting on its debt.

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