And it would also bar the Federal Communications Commission from regulating prices of interactive computer services.
He said the Singapore project would be like an interactive computer experience in which people could make decisions about the island's ecology and habitat.
Across the country, schools are replacing good old slate and chalk in favor of interactive, computer-driven whiteboards.
Television-makers, for instance, may introduce more interactive features and computer-makers launch app stores in response.
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"It's the ability to interactively move through very high-definition, very large urban environments on the computer and in an interactive fashion, " said Bill Jepson, an architectural computing professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"The vision technology allows that surface to become interactive, so that while the computer is projecting the information on to, say, your table top, the worker can interact with that the thing which is basically just light by using light, " Lai said.
Initially the services will be prepared for users of the BT Openworld service, but eventually it will be expanded to become a portal that BTs customers can access via almost any device - be it interactive TV, hand-held computer or mobile phone.
The ultra-compact multimedia-capable device, called Dell Wyse "Project Ophelia, " is slightly larger than a USB memory stick and enables users to convert any capable TV or monitor into a functioning interactive personal display device without using a computer, tablet or smartphone.
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In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.
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The BCS Standings is a combination of two polls (Harris Interactive and USA Today Coaches), plus 6 computer rankings.
For decades businesses have updated their computer networks by bolting fancy features like interactive Web sites onto old, brittle networks cluttered with arcane code.
DuoSense offers greater mobility and usability in the next generation of computing devices, enabling new market opportunities for OEMs and ODMs to introduce new computer products and for ISVs to develop innovative software applications that offer a more intuitive and interactive experience.
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