The satire is biting, unmasking the thinness of so much of our modern interaction.
He explained that the thinness combined with the tapered edges made for an easy slide into a pocket.
"We think, at a certain point, thinness doesn't matter anymore, " said Tim Alessi, LG's director of new product development.
The thinness of the market gives little indication of what sovereignty is worth.
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Fuel was added to the fire by the thinness of available biographical material.
But the thinness of the safety net also reflects a widespread article of faith, recited and reinforced over the years.
But, like a dieting commercial featuring impossibly thin models, CES is always promising impossible thinness, particularly on its latest television screens.
But there is a further aspect of this portico so crucial to its mix of lightness and solidity: its relative thinness.
At a set of traffic lights, a boy, possibly my age, although his thinness made him look younger, tapped on my window.
"We have had for decades now an obsession with thinness and an obsession with weight and how to lose it, " he said.
Hart, glaring at her tall thinness, her long hair falling in a braid down her back, the easy smile on her tanned face.
The hour and minute domes underneath are cut from solid aluminum to a thinness of just 0.28mm (a sheet of paper is about 0.1mm thick).
It's still AMD 64 performance, yet now it's got the battery life and the thinness and lightness and all the things to do with mobility.
People eyeing the Air for its speed, thinness and beauty should also give the Samsung Series 9 a long, hard look before pulling the trigger.
Or the steep tapers to the handset's edges that lend an illusion of thinness which undercuts its actual 132.35 x 66.2 x 10.12mm (5.21 x 2.6 x 0.39 inches) dimensions.
Also on display is a 15.4-inch LED-backlit LCD sporting a 1440 x 900 resolution, 5.8-mm thinness, and 3.1W power consumption making it suitable for all the new laptops.
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In a column in Wired today, Wiens compares the new Macbook Pro to the Macbook Air, which sacrificed upgradeability and reparability in pursuit of thinness and sold millions as a result.
Yet a final contrast of forms, between the light thinness of the building proper and the solid three-dimensionality of the tower, hints of the full-blown Greek-revival style of the coming generation.
And although some of the rest of the industry is likely to show Ultrabooks that trump in thinness the Air currently in the market, Apple will certainly show an updated Air sometime this year.
Their style, self-possession, thinness and beauty is immense.
Still, we can say pretty firmly that its thinness, lightness, and comfort in the hand is far and away its strongest feature, and one that it beats a lot of its more robust competition prettily handily.
We'll have to wait on country-specific pricing and availability details, but tentatively, we'd say we'd be willing to sacrifice a little thinness if the performance and battery life remain equal and the display remains stunning enough.
Piaget, also, offers a variety: it has set numerous world records for sheer thinness while at the same time setting precedents for its relatively lightweight tourbillions, which generally tend to be the heaviest and largest wristwatches on the market.
As you may be able to tell from the naming convention, the devices are intended to offer the best of both worlds, offering a convertible slider form factor and, in the case of the Ultra, the thinness and lightness associated with Ultrabooks.
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"Obesity and thinness are two sides of the same coin, and with our partners at Merck we are working to identify the best targets for therapeutic intervention within this pathway, as well as compounds that are effective against these targets, " DeCode Chief Executive Kari Stefansson said in the statement.
It sets a new standard for thinness in LTE devices, uses leading-edge display technology, resists flexing, glass breakage and water damage, has a striking design and thoughtfully selected materials, stretches battery life, matches with a bevy of optimized accessories, and enables remote file and media access via Motocast software .
It's not going to set any records for thinness or price, but laptops like this one are a big part of the reason the Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is turning in better numbers lately, and the M1330 could be a case study on how to hit a sweet spot in a fast-moving market.
Kim then shifts into sales-mode by pointing out that Samsung's more power-efficient 240Hz LCDs and Plasmas with highly-reflective black panels and LED edge-lighting are quickly cutting into any advantage offered by OLEDs -- including thinness if you factor in the additional electronics you'd have to slap onto the back of those 3-mm thick OLED panels to create a TV.
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