With a mechanical keyboard, on the other hand, each key press triggers an actual on-off switch a feeling as solid as flicking on the lights.
The earpiece has an on-off switch, a three-stage volume control and uses a rechargeable battery.
They seem only to care about where the on-off switch is located.
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All these mutations were done by physically changing the animals' DNA. It wasn't until Johns Hopkins' Beachy and his colleagues remembered reading about the Idaho lambs that they realized cyclopamine could be used as an easier on-off switch for the hedgehog pathway.
If it all sounds too much, Mrs Kramlich points out that living with media art is really no different from living with fixed-image art. (The couple have works by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys in their mock-Tudor San Francisco home.) The difference, she adds with an eye to California's electricity troubles, is that you have an on-off switch and when the images vanish, the house is an artwork of its own.
"You run through a field and the paraglider wing catches the wind, it fills with air, blows you off the ground, you switch on the motor and off you go, you're flying, " he said.
The screen can also be turned on and off using the switch, enabling one-touch operations.
Yet fewer than 10 percent of hospices have formal policies on when to switch off the implants.
Her Hedda has a doll-like beauty and a smile that she turns on and off like a switch.
It is not something that we can switch on and off whenever it suits us.
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"We're not that good yet to be able to turn that switch on and off, " C.
But those taking off on their summer holidays would be wise not to switch off their mobile telephones.
Analogue television across the UK will switch off on 24 October.
Every other territory will switch off on when 2013 starts.
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But the ability to turn that switch on and off perfectly for others is a little like being able to walk a tightrope, chew gum, talk on the phone and solve a math problem at the same time.
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And I heard an interesting comment the other week from someone connected with grid issues - that the engineers like to have a bit of wind power in the mix because wind turbines are the easiest thing by far to switch on and off.
The dimmer has a unique multi-touch capacitive interface that allows the light to be turned on or off by sliding a finger up or down on the glass switch front.
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It's a bit speculative, but once scientists understand how receptors work, they can in theory use chemical agents to switch them on or off.
He was dying on the phone when he heard another mute button switch off and the voice of an even more senior executive came on the line.
In cells, enzymes are the basis of the natural circuits that switch genes on and off, maintain biological rhythms and produce molecular answers in response to environmental stimuli.
But the parts list says those regions contain, or are close to, a particular kind of genetic switch turned on and off in various types of immune cell.
Consumers can interrogate this server from a PC or iPhone to see not only the consumption pattern of various appliances attached to smart plugs around the home, but also to send instructions back to switch them on or off.
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We're not exactly sure what makes these virus transistors so special, but apparently the transistors they've built out of the nano-coated strands, and sandwiched between two electrodes, are easy to switch between ON and OFF states, since they don't need to build up a charge at a lame-o capacitor before they can be switched.
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Every time you turn a light switch on or a faucet off you interact with the market.
In order to operate, our cells constantly switch protein production on and off through specific gene functions.
Lighthouse authority Trinity House plans to switch off Godrevy light on the edge of St Ives Bay by 2010.
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Cyprus' troubled banks have enough money until Monday after the European Central Bank said it will switch off its lifeline on Monday unless an international rescue is in place.
In 2002 MIT professors started a not-for-profit called BioBricks that has collected 2, 000 biological components, including gene sequences that sense light, produce light, send messages between cells and switch cell functions on and off.
Keeping with the contextual phone skills, Samsung's Smart Stay feature makes the device detect (through the front-facing camera) whether a face is looking at it in order to switch the display on or off.
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