One of the biggest annoyances with new WiFi devices is getting them connected to your secure network, so Imp makes this fast and easy.

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Based on that glamorous imp Diana Ross, she allows the Berry Gordy figure (Jamie Foxx) to dress her up as a swank mannequin but finally breaks free.

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If you remember, the Electric Imp is part of this whole Internet of Things trend and has the potential to transform common appliances into interconnected devices.

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His co-star Mike Farrell added that Morgan was "an imp".

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What can you do with the Electric Imp?

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"Any suggestion, inference, or innuendo that implies that IMP's treatment of patients with prostate cancer is based on anything other than the best interests and personal choice of each, individual patient is blatantly false, " he wrote.

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The Imp uses WiFi and a cloud service to make it easier than ever before for vendors to internet-enable their products, bringing the power of the internet to places and devices it could never reach before.

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At the end of the day, connecting the smARtPULSE to any computer (be it Linux, Windows or OS X) will be pretty simple, and there will even be libraries available for Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Electric Imp.

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Ex-Imp would guarantee the loan from default.

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Spark Devices is tying into Imp.

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Have you tried Imp or Twine?

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Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.

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We saw a number of Electric Imp demos and appliance ideas at the booth including a simple hand-held "detonator" toggle switch with LED, seven-segment counter, water level sensor, servo-controlled gauge, RGB light, power socket, Christmas light, power monitor, toy washing machine, 16x16 LED display and receipt printer (the latter two being combined to show the avatars and tweets of anyone mentioning the Electric Imp) -- all Internet aware.

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