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  2. Sony timer - Wikipedia

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    Sony's chairman of board of directors since 2005 to 2009, Ryōji Chūbachi said, in 2007, that the company was well aware of the existence of this urban legend [1] [2]. The Sony timer (ソニータイマー, Sonī taimā), or Sony kill switch, is an urban legend that electronic devices produced by Sony are equipped with a timer which, upon reaching a deliberately preset deadline, causes the ...

  3. Timer - Wikipedia

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    A typical kitchen timer. A timer or countdown timer is a type of clock that starts from a specified time duration and stops upon reaching 00:00. An example of a simple timer is an hourglass. Commonly, a timer triggers an alarm when it ends. A timer can be implemented through hardware or software.

  4. Shot clock - Wikipedia

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    A shot clock is a countdown timer used in a variety of games and sports, indicating a set amount of time that a team may possess the object of play before attempting to score a goal. Shot clocks are used in several sports including basketball , water polo , canoe polo , lacrosse , poker , ringette , korfball , tennis , ten-pin bowling , and ...

  5. LineageOS - Wikipedia

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    World clock, countdown timer, stopwatch and alarms. -- -- Contacts Phonebook for numbers and email addresses. -- -- Files A simple file manager to move, copy and rename files on internal storage or SD card. -- -- FlipFlap An app for smart flip covers, only included on select devices. -- -- FM Radio

  6. Norden bombsight - Wikipedia

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    To use the system, the bombardier looked up the expected time it would take for the bombs to fall from the current altitude. This time was set into a countdown stopwatch, and the sights were set to the angle that the bombs would fall if there was no wind. The bombardier waited for the target to line up with a crosshair in the telescope.

  7. Play clock - Wikipedia

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    A play clock, also called a delay-of-game timer, is a countdown clock intended to speed up the pace of the game in gridiron football.The offensive team must put the ball in play by either snapping the ball during a scrimmage down or kicking the ball during a free kick down before the time expires, or else they will be assessed a 5-yard delay of game (American football) or time count violation ...

  8. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb's timing mechanism may be professionally manufactured either separately or as part of the device, or it may be improvised from an ordinary household timer such as a wind-up alarm clock, wrist watch, digital kitchen timer, or notebook computer. The timer can be programmed to count up or count down (usually the latter; as the bomb ...

  9. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - Wikipedia

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    Each bomb will also have a countdown timer; if the timer reaches zero, the bomb will explode. Bombs will also have a maximum number of strikes resulting from errors made during defusing (also speeding the timer), and if that maximum is reached, the bomb will also explode.