LeapReader's a sort of spiritual successor to the company's Tag line, maintaining the reading tool's pen-like form factor, while adding writing to the equation.

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The spiritual successor to the Ultima games has launched on Kickstarter.

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Brian Fargo is hoping to fund its spiritual successor on Kickstarter.

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Chivalry will be the spiritual successor to the popular mod.

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On its face, the device shares a lot more with BlackBerry's past than its future, with a build that's clearly a spiritual successor to the company's Bold line.

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Key creator Tom Hall and his startup Pieces of Fun may be playing our heartstrings like a fiddle, then, by launching a crowdfunding drive for the Keen series' spiritual successor, Secret Spaceship Club.

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There's little we can definitively attach to that starry-eyed name so far, although we have our hunches: first and foremost is that it's the Jasper, the Snapdragon S4-touting spiritual successor to the Droid Charge.

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Fans of the Sony Ericcson-made arc S will find that this device is more spiritual successor than next of kin, as the TL still carries on that curved body legacy, but at 129.4 x 67.3 x 9.35mm (5.1 x 2.6 x 0.4 inches) it's more than half a millimeter thicker.

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