But one day, he was dismayed to find several Godiva chocolates on his computer keyboard.
Master Lock sells a garage-door opener with a built-in fingerprint scanner, the Kwikset SmartScan Deadbolt will open up your front door with another finger swipe and Schlage's LiNK door locks allow owners to give anyone access to their home by punching a code into a computer keyboard or mobile phone's keypad.
The Microsoft Surface, a horizontal touch-screen computer with neither keyboard nor mouse, will go on sale in November.
It's best to measure your work environment, noting exactly how far your eyes are from your computer screen, keyboard and desk surface, as well as from any laptop or hand-held devices you use.
For conference calls and chats, Tiki's Intelligent Speech Mode uses voice isolation to bring your voice to the forefront while noise-canceling technology simultaneously reduces unwanted, competing background noise such as computer fans, keyboard typing and ambient sound.
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So they optimized the Web site for the operating system and then looked at how people used the iPad compared to how they used a computer with a keyboard and designed the bank site for touch and swipe.
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This computer would have no keyboard, no mouse, no real monitor even.
Windows 8, released in late October, can be controlled by touching a display screen, as well the more traditional use of a keyboard or computer mouse.
While we may try and act noble and bold from behind the relative safety of the keyboard, or computer screen.
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Two years old, it still has everything I need in a computer, including an ethereally comfortable keyboard.
The Model 33 Teletype keyboard connected to the computer Mr Tomlinson was using only had about 12 punctuation characters.
We're a long way from that, I can't do that yet from the keyboard and have the computer process it.
They make a gleeful racket, smashing together French chanson, American garage rock, and Beatle-esque pop, with Casio keyboard vamps and quirky computer sampling.
The mainstream way we interact with a computer these days is still mouse and keyboard.
The twist: an optional keyboard that transforms the tablet computer into a laptop.
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The computer also features a spill-resistant keyboard (up 6 ounces).
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The MaKey MaKey is an invention kit that tricks your computer into thinking that almost anything is a keyboard.
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Speech recognition could be the next killer app, with huge potential in markets such as China and Japan where the QWERTY keyboard is more a hindrance to computer literacy than a help.
Emotiv sells a variety of software including a package of popular games like "Call of Duty" and "World of Warcraft" that are optimized for the company's headset, as well as a program designed to let users control a computer with thoughts instead of a mouse or keyboard.
Both groups of Tetris players, for example, only described seeing blocks, falling and rotating, and evidently did not see a desk, room, or computer screen, or feel their fingers on the keyboard.
The software doesn't decode Skype's encryption, but instead captures audio streams, keystrokes typed into the keyboard and possibly anything else happening on the computer.
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These settings can then be accessed from any computer, with any Razer DeathStalker Ultimate, to ensure the keyboard is instantly ready for use.
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Users interact with the computer via its 30-inch screen--no mouse or keyboard necessary.
The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since.
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An Ubuntu-equipped phone would plug into a dock connected to a keyboard and monitor, and the result would be a desktop computer of genuine value.
Diamond provides a 3-in-1 remote that features a keyboard, mouse and motion control, allowing you to use your television like a computer device or a game console.
If ever the need arises for a large keyboard and some earnest typing, they sit down in front of the nearest available computer anywhere in the world, open its web browser and access all their documents online.
The computer runs on open-sourced operating system Linux and can be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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The on-board ATMega32u4 communicates with your computer using the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol which means that it can act like a keyboard or mouse.
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