Sentences with phrase «using tiny devices»

It uses tiny devices called memristors that store information by «remembering» the last voltage applied to them.

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At this point, anyone can take that source code and create their own tiny botnet using embedded devices.

These tiny wonders are designed to work instantly, as opposed to every other experience you've had with bluetooth devices, which constantly fail to connect or lose their connection so often that you ultimately stop using them.

According to market share data from IDC, Android is used on more than 2 billion devices, only a tiny proportion of which are Google devices.

SQUID — or Street Quality Identification Device — is a tiny contraption that sits on the bed of a pickup truck used by the Syracuse Department of Public Works, designed to measure the quality of the streets of Syracuse.

Nicknamed HandSight, the wearable device uses a tiny camera worn on the fingertip to translate text to speech as users hover over words on a page

A new approach to tiny fuel cells implanted in rats enables the devices to generate electricity for months using sugar in the rodents» bodies

Now that has changed: Forward thinkers see it as an important energizer for the tiniest of machines, devices on the nano scale, and a few labs are working on ways to use the force to defy the conventional limitations of mechanical design.

Dubbed the «lab - on - a-chip,» the device promises faster result times, reduced costs, minimal sample demands and better sensitivity of analysis when compared with the conventional bench - top instruments now used to examine the tiny biomarkers.

Using tiny radar tracking devices, motion - activated cameras and artificial flowers, scientists have learned how the bees themselves quickly learn the best routes to take when they go foraging from flower to flower.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

Using power harvested from ambient light with a tiny solar cell — roughly the size of a grain of rice — the device was able to communicate with a base station that was 50 feet away.

Although physicists say the technique has a way to go before it can be applied, they envision its being used for developing tiny measuring devices or to make tiny generators.

«We have shown we can use room - temperature, plastic electronic devices that allow us to see the orientation of the tiniest magnets in nature — the spins in the smallest atomic nuclei,» says physics professor Christoph Boehme, one of the study's principal authors.

«New chip could bring highest level of encryption to any mobile device: First use of quantum technology to create a random number generator that is both tiny and fast.»

For the first time, engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that could deliver the world's most secure encryption keys in a package tiny enough to use in a mobile device.

One of the secrets to making tiny laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots.

It is the manipulation and use of materials and devices so tiny that nothing can be built any smaller.

«This tiny device could have other exciting uses including in anti-counterfeit devices in bank notes, imaging cells for medical applications and holograms.»

However, by combining the capabilities of the Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA)-- a device that can measure the tiny forces generated by the interaction of two surfaces at the sub-nano scale — and simultaneous imaging using a fluorescence microscope, the researchers were able to see in real time how the cell membranes rearrange in order to connect and open a fusion conduit between them.

The research, a major step toward bridging the gap between laboratory studies and industrial catalysis, could help improve the design and environmental impact of catalytic reactors, including tiny «lab - on - a-chip» devices, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

«Smart Ring: Mobile on - body devices can be precisely and discreetly controlled using a tiny sensor.»

MEMS accelerometers are tiny sensors used in common devices, such as smart phones and laptops.

A Stanford electrical engineer has invented a way to wirelessly transfer power deep inside the body and then use this power to run tiny electronic medical gadgets such as pacemakers, nerve stimulators or new sensors and devices yet to be developed.

This approach uses precision measurement techniques and devices from atomic, quantum, and condensed - matter physics to detect tiny signals due to new particles or forces.

In a lab at Ohio State, the researchers compress different minerals that are common to the mantle and subject them to high pressures and temperatures using a diamond anvil cell — a device that squeezes a tiny sample of material between two diamonds and heats it with a laser — to simulate conditions in the deep Earth.

The device is a pacemaker with a tiny generator and a sensing lead, but instead of using electrical pulses to control abnormal heart rate, the device uses two wires to stimulate the tongue.

Duke University researchers have developed a prototype device that uses sound waves to separate tiny particles called exosomes from blood samples.

Tiny devices that take advantage of a recently discovered physical effect called extraordinary magnetoresistance could be used in blazingly fast computer disk drives with huge capacities and in dozens of other applications involving the sensing of magnetic fields

Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.

Jon Froehlich and his colleagues at the University of Maryland have developed a device, nicknamed HandSight, that uses a tiny camera originally developed for endoscopies.

After injecting a local anesthetic, the physicians inserted a small catheter across the perineum and used it to guide a tiny optical fiber, the laser and a cooling device into the prostate.

In a paper published this month in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the researchers, including Prashanta Dutta, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Akron, present an improved and more effective Coulter device, used for the detection of the tiny microbes.

Using the dyes with magnetic nanoparticles and tiny fluorescent beads, allowed them to use the slime mold network as a biological «lab - on - a-chip» device.

Since these devices poke tiny holes into your skin, dermatologists say that using them will make you at risk for an infection.

Soldiers chase a group of adults and children in a warehouse type dwelling, shooting them with a combination sleep - drug and tracking device (please see the Substance Use category for more details); the people fall to the floor, asleep, and we see a tiny ball bearing stuck on the skin at the neck or shoulder; one woman rolls down a staircase (she is unharmed and awake), and a little girl cries and runs off screen.

Compare the fluency of a teenager typing on a smartphone, steeped in repeated practice, with her less practiced parents, who use such a device in a much more occasional, stumbling manner — as they struggle to «think through their fingers» in this tiny medium.

I don't own any tiny electronic device, not even a cell - phone so would enjoy having this ever so much and would make such good use out of it.

They're using tiny ultrasonic microphones in the device, which pick up the vibrations transmitted from the supplied pen as you're writing or drawing on actual paper.

To the left of the media buttons lies the power button, which between being tiny and mounted flush to the device makes it extremely annoying to use.

I have a Kindle but I prefer to read print books because I find the constant scrolling on a tiny screen a little annoying, and somehow using a device feels like work to me.

If you are reading this on your mobile device (cellular phone, PDA, etc.) then you can use Tiny eBook Reader to read eBooks.

We've covered a few previous thermoelectric devices meant for personal use, but there's a new entry in the market from a company that also sells «a tiny hydropower turbine in a can.»

Using harnesses, a machine and a measuring device to pull these discs off different textured surfaces, they found that the clingfish's disc can generate adhesive forces 80 to 230 times their body weight, allowing this tiny fish to hang onto rocks, and to hunt limpets (round molluscs that also cling to rocks).

The device is very simple to use — Drop a tiny sample of food in the cartridge and insert it into the handheld device.

If you buy an unlocked phone from Amazon, or give an old one to a family member or friend, that device still needs that tiny card to be installed manually to use it with AT&T, Verizon, and other carriers.

Not to be confused with any finalized patent for a pendant or pin device on its own, this patent from 2015 uses the tiny display device as an example of what Apple was considering as applicable for the future.

These tiny Bluetooth devices are increasingly being used by large and small businesses alike to improve store experiences for consumers.