There were few arrests at the London Olympics, but somehow the one about the British peeping tom managed to escape headlines.

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While the latter enhancement merely transforms your smartphone or tablet into an extended remote, it's the former that'll turn your TV choices into a game of peeping Tom, delivering ads custom-fit for you.

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He was of course not out on the half-scraped deck, ready to peer jokingly in the window through which she might, in earlier days, have pretended to be alarmed at the sight of a peeping tom.

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Well, a team of researchers have been working on a handheld camera that sports the same technology, and while they're touting its future impact on stuff like cancer detection and aerospace engineering, we can't help but squirm thinking about its Peeping-Tom potential.

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