Now, however, Apple is pushing a new kind of pointing device.

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Another alternative to the mouse as a pointing device is to use a gaze-tracking camera, which works out where you are looking and moves an on-screen pointer accordingly.

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The first was the graphical user interface, using a mouse as a pointing device, which Jobs adapted (some might say stole) from Xerox PARC and SRI to make the Macintosh.

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Aside from its pedigree of simply being a ThinkPad (I will forever prefer that red TrackPoint to any other pointing device, and their keyboards are exceptional), it improves on the Yoga by boasting a detachable keyboard dock.

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It hit back at the capacity comparisons, pointing out that the Sony device could only hold that many songs if the data were compressed, reducing the sound quality.

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Whenever I write about the lack of third-party HD-DVRs, I inevitably receive a slew of email gently pointing me to the HD TiVo, a device DirecTV (the aforementioned benevolent dictatorship) so kindly offers.

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When the device is aligned so that its pits are pointing straight at the sun, most of the incident radiation goes down them to their bottoms.

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Instead, the device will be released in October, with most sources reportedly pointing to the back end of the month rather than the beginning.

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The company posted an explanation this week, predictably pointing the finger at Amazon Web Services and explaining that not every streaming device was knocked offline.

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