The volunteer was then supposed to record, using a press-button counter, the number of times he perceived the insect moving on his skin.
When you're in S Note, you can also hold the pen above the screen and long-press its button to activate another new feature called Idea Sketch.
That tail is useful because it adds depth to the OS, in the form of a vertical row of "cards" which appear when you long-press the home button, and which grow intelligently based on what Google can glean about your life.
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Users can also pre-program an Instant Share recipient so that when they "long-press" the instant clip button, Looxcie automatically sends the clip to the pre-determined email address.
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It works much like the video feature in the company's Poke app -- press and hold the red record button, speak your message and it'll appear in-line as part of your chat, represented by a clickable sound wave icon.
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That 0.1 numbering gives a good indication of just how light the visible feature set might be, though -- other than an existing update to substitute the virtual menu button for a long-press of the home key, the interface changes are mostly limited to dedicated buttons for switching browser tabs and between different cameras.
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After you crank it on (okay, there's no cranking involved -- just a button press), you'll feel it kick in after maybe five seconds.
With TCL's Personal Box Office (PBO) technology, family members just need to press the power button and personally-tailored, commercial-free content streams from the MoVo set.
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With a press of a button, the dash-mounted driver's display can be toggled between 2D and 3D and the results are quite good.
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When you press the GT-R's Start button, pumps and lubrication circuits come noisily to life, the forged crank twirls and the aluminum pistons of the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 pick up the rhythm.
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Both series also include a gaming mode that cuts the lag between a remote control button press and the resulting on-screen action, making these sets perfect PC or console gaming TVs.
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There's a growing choice of 3D-capable digital cameras from Sony. 3D Sweep Panorama captures extra-wide 3D scenes: just press the shutter button and sweep the camera from side to side.
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After a fainting spell, a patient would hold a pager-size communicator over his chest and press a button to freeze the recording, so a doctor could upload the data for analysis.
There are other off-putting details too: if you press the Start button on the lower bezel while the screen is propped up, the entire display moves.
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Xerox figured out how to let everyone be a one-button printer, and killed the small printing press manufacturers.
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Movie recording can be started with a single press of the dedicated "Movie Recording Button" and records high-quality sound using the built-in stereo microphone.
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If the icon doesn't provide a menu, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, select the name of the tray application, and click the End Task button.
Inventables' most recent shipment included a self-heating can that contains calcium oxide and water, which mix and heat up when users press a button on the can.
They utilize the increasingly-common side menu that can be accessed via a swipe to the right (or button press in the top left corner) and visually seems to appear from under the main inbox screen.
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These tiny and relatively cheap devices have revolutionised the filming of action sequences - you just clamp them to a bike, a car, or even a surfboard, press the button and hope you capture something exciting.
To help ensure a creative moment is never missed, the VIXIA HF G20 camcorder offers Pre-Record, a feature that allows users to automatically capture three seconds of footage before they press the record button.
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Your player was utterly crippled, somehow, by his acquisition of an incredibly powerful weapon, and so you press one button over and over until the game appeared to end before jetting off to the present for a modern-day platforming section so long and boring it felt like a tech demo of a jump button.
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