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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. Timer (film) - Wikipedia

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    Timer (stylized as TiMER) is a 2009 science fiction romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Jac Schaeffer in her directorial debut. The plot concerns a device that counts down to the day a person meets their soulmate.

  5. Pinball Number Count - Wikipedia

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    Pinball Number Count (or Pinball Countdown) is a collective title referring to 11 one-minute animated segments on the children's television series Sesame Street that teach children to count to 12 by following the journey of a pinball through a fanciful pinball machine.

  6. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident - Wikipedia

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    Bill Maher said on his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher that Mohamed deserves an apology but that his clock "looks exactly like a fucking bomb". In the same "Real Time" interview, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, one of the panelists on the show, stated that he called Mohamed on the phone to discuss the event and Mohamed's interest in technology ...

  7. Stopwatch - Wikipedia

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    A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation. A large digital version of a stopwatch designed for viewing at a distance, as in a sports stadium, is called a stop clock. In manual timing, the clock is started and stopped by a person pressing a button.

  8. Self-destruct - Wikipedia

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    Usually the method required to initiate a self-destruct sequence is lengthy and complex, as in Alien, [13] or else requires multiple officers aboard the ship with individual passcodes to concur, [14] while audible and/or visible countdown timers allow audiences to track the growing urgency of the characters' escape.

  9. A Kind of a Stopwatch - Wikipedia

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    "A Kind of a Stopwatch" [1] is a 1963 episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, a man acquires a stopwatch which can stop time. In this episode, a man acquires a stopwatch which can stop time.