If our parents wanted to remember as they moved away from the small town to the city, they cracked open an album or maybe even plugged in the slide projector.

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For one, it's a battery hog (that, or the battery's too small), lasting about three hours in my tests before going back to the cradle or having to run plugged in (the power cable's reasonably long at eight feet).

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Google does warn that those running encryption for the first time should be plugged in or have a full battery.

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To cut his parts, Mr. Rodgers turned up at New York's Electric Ladyland Studio with his 1959 Fender Stratocaster, plugged in without pedals or effects, and just played.

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How about a car that gets 30% better fuel economy, doesn't require a giant battery in the trunk or have to be plugged into the wall, and can travel 600 miles between fill-ups?

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For longer battery life devices like iPhones, iPods or iPads, chargers are much less likely to be plugged into a gadget in a public setting.

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No other American television news programme, cable or broadcast, did better (though the BBC and Al-Jazeera were both swifter and more plugged-in).

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