No one really likes buying a phone based on a few minutes spent pressing the greasy buttons of a dummy handset.
Around the side of the device, you'll find a wide silver trim, with two indeterminate buttons of different sizes on the left side.
In turn, that suggests that racial characteristics are operating merely as badges of convenience, rather than pressing deep, biologically determined buttons of discrimination.
When the imaginary is presented as fact, hard and hypervisible, right down to the popping buttons of a waistcoat, does the magic not drop off?
We heard through the grapevine there was at some point a prototype with buttons of various width, but for whatever reason that didn't make the cut.
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Many of us whiled away untold hours of our youth mashing the D-pad, A and B buttons of the original Game Boy, which is why we've seen many hacks using its iconic hardware.
In last week's Barbershop, we mentioned some talk making the rounds, mostly on emails, about whether or not you could be turned away from the polls if you show up wearing buttons of T-shirts promoting a particular candidate.
In many cases this is the only way to reach a function, the Z10 has a distinct lack of buttons around the edges of the handset (volume, power, and camera) and there are no buttons at all on the face of the unit.
The movie is done with crispness, vigor, down-home humor, and an over-all tang of good feeling, but the pushing of buttons is the work of extraordinary calculation.
Patricia Tarran of Buttons Nanny Agency says that many of her nannies were made redundant last year, typically after the children's father lost his job.
Mice live and die by the placement of their buttons and the comfort of their grip, and adjusted properly the Rat 9 is fairly superb on both fronts.
The company points to its new line of peripherals as an example: eight products featuring hydrophobic coatings, Logitech's exclusive Delta Zero sensor technology and buttons capable of surviving over 20 million toggles.
According to a pamphlet obtained by datacider, the MEDIAS family will soon be welcoming a Gingerbread-powered N-06C, which closely resembles the N-04C except for the extra 0.2mm thickness plus 10g weight, as well as touch buttons instead of physical ones.
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Most notably, the X920e for China and Russia is the only model that comes with red capacitive buttons instead of white, and for some reason the J Butterfly managed to get away with no logo placement at all on the front.
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The list of too-late devices at CES goes on: Samsung has launched four of its own e-reading gadgets, at least one of which features a panel of buttons that emerged sleekly from the bottom of the device.
This quirk also extended to the use of the navigation buttons at the base of the screen, leading us to believe the phone hadn't registered our touch.
The big bar below the grid of buttons disengages the autopilot and gives the pilot full control of the aircraft.
The microcontroller-driven stage allows anyone to quickly create a piece of miniature theater using handcrafted puppets and an impressive selection of buttons, knobs and switches -- all lovingly handcrafted out of wood on this prototype.
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It's a bit subtle to the untrained eye, but BlackBerry diehards may well notice the presence of two large, orange buttons on either side of the trackball that jut out a few millimeters.
Ever since we (as a society) first plugged computers called "gaming consoles" into our televisions, we've been following an archaic process of swapping remotes and pushing buttons and all sorts of needless busywork.
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It's apparent from first glance that the Sabertooth is intended as such, given the six extra (programmable) buttons found on the shoulders and back of the controller, and the tiny OLED screen found along the bottom (allowing for the programming of said buttons).
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At first glance, Bug Labs' latest creation actually seems like a bit of a downgrade from the version it replaces -- it loses the onboard LCD display and a handful of buttons, after all -- but we sat down with CEO Peter Semmelhack today on the hustling, bustling floor of MWC to get the straight dope on what makes the BUGbase 2.0 a superior product.
Probably, because despite the new contender's self described status of a "mobile Playstation, " its lack of shoulder buttons won't help it play any of those Xperia-exclusive PSone games it can't download.
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Situated beneath that display is a tiny home button, a first on the nano. (Previous iPods had click-wheels or no such buttons at all.) That makes one of five buttons here -- yes, five.
The scrub bar is automatically shown every time you hit any of the transport control buttons, with the exception of the replay button.
Under the same hand's middle and ring fingers sit two buttons in charge of chucking in-game grenades.
Beyond that array, the rest of the body is devoid of buttons and switches.
Instead of having millions of buttons, the Wii-mote, as they call it, is motion and position sensitive.
Freed from traditional design restrictions, designers created a controls layout devoid of intimidating clusters of buttons and knobs.
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Each of the two hardware platters has a pair of buttons beneath it letting you switch between decks easily.
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