Dinky is our family dog and he really belongs to my sister, Aria.
But they also suffer from cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
When Paul Collingwood trots up to bowl his dinky medium pacers and takes 3-16 from six overs, you know something is up.
Italian and Dutch builders are charging the same amount for dinky 180-footers.
At the moment, simply combining the two devices creates a bulky box that may be unattractive to people who are more used to slinky dinky handsets.
He had very little money on him, so he squatted with a friend in a dinky apartment, spending many sleepless nights perfecting his software.
Still, the cramped layout and short throw of the keys, plus the dinky, unresponsive trackpad, gave us chilling flashbacks to the netbooks of yore.
The already dinky gadget will be stripped down further, if the specifications companies already creating cases for the new gadget are working with are accurate.
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The fire-engine red bicycles look dinky but are actually fairly sturdy machines, with high handlebars and a basket in front to throw a bag into.
It can even render 3-D graphics and play video games, not just the dinky ones, either, but the really cool ones with lots of fancy graphics.
Can Apple cram iOS onto the dinky new music player?
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Sure, the machines had dinky screens and janky keyboards.
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Realising their designs would involve assembling and connecting hundreds or thousands of components by hand, using unreliable solder, and then connecting these dinky little constructions to tens of thousands of light bulbs.
When it comes to consumer-level IoT, the classic example is Botanicalls, a dinky little product which sends plaintive tweets when the soil it is planted in becomes dry, to ensure plants stay watered.
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The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
But when we met there last week, he confessed not only to having had breakfast there on occasion, but to bringing his own stainless steel utensils, because he doesn't like the dinky plastic knives and forks Irv's provides.
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