Sentences with word «boffin»

(In my heart of hearts I think it is really the «Son of Palm», because Palm used to do a lot of these neat little tasks, albeit with a stylus and not your fingertips, but it sort of was left behind while the creative boffins at Apple forged ahead with this integrated and attractive new generation toy).

What's more, this isn't science fiction, and it's not only something used by boffins in the university's lab.

Much unlike what HP boffins did to the TouchPad, the PlayBook tablet from RIM has not been pushed into oblivion in spite of it also not faring too well in the market.

I'm willing to bet if the stat boffins looked at all those 46 cards an inordinate amount would be due to «cynical» fouls after a turnover in play.

The JLR Special Vehicle Operations boffins who found that extra power also beefed up the SVR's suspension for flatter cornering.

«People envision scientists as boffins in white coats with fluffy white cats.

However, good sense seems to have prevailed with the RIM boffins so that they are now flashing «New Low Price» along with the $ 199 price tag.

Not surprisingly, Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 10.1 N has failed to impress Apple boffins with the latter already having moved court to seek a fresh ban on Samsung selling the re-designed tablet.

However, what seems evident is that a definite approach to charging the smartwatch seems to have eluded Apple boffins who are keen for an iWatch device that can be used for several days before requiring a recharge.

But the stats boffins at Who.Scored reckon that NINE centre - backs have been better than Alderweireld this season.

Google has added new anti-malware capabilities to Android 4.2 «Jelly Bean,» but relying on them to block malicious apps might not be a good idea, says a computer science boffin from North Carolina State University.

Additionally, the Poltergeists / Boffins from Luigi's Mansion 2 would fit pretty well in this kind of setting.

This is quite unlike what HP did to their TouchPad, though there already are whispers of HP boffins having second thoughts on that.

Little Nightmares is a puzzle - platformer horror game developed by Tarsier Studios, a Swedish crew of creative boffins responsible for the likes of LittleBigPlanet for the Playstation Vita and Tearaway...

Well luckily for us, those clever boffins at Manchester MET University have solved the mystery of why toast always topples butter side down... and it's got nothing to do with the type of bread you use

While they were doing that some spare boffins found time to sharpen the steering, drop the ride height by 15 mm and, perhaps most significantly, widen the front and rear tracks by 30 mm.

Our dedicated Pollemma tech boffins have been working tirelessly all weekend on their hi tech machines to come up with...

Full marks to the Treasury boffin who brought it into play.

Rival British boffin biopic The Theory of Everything trailed with four nominations (including those for its leading actor, Eddie Redmayne and actress Felicity Jones), level pegging with David Fincher's Gone Girl, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Martin Luther King drama Selma.

Now, there's an even - faster version from Aston's performance boffins at AMR.

Jaguar's suspension boffins talk long and hard about this set - up providing the perfect building blocks for a blend of sporty handling and class - leading ride.

The front double - wishbone and rear multi-link set - ups feature «in - wheel» designs which Honda's boffins say all but eliminates any torque steer — another reason the front - end feels so pure despite the fact that the torque - vectoring systems is active every millimetre the NSX's wheels turn.

It's pointless to seek a more profound truth here, as media boffins will insist on doing.

There was a time when the festival was cringingly self - congratulatory, a bacchanalia where overfed creative boffins went to collect trophies and escalate salaries.

Email marketing boffins like us use specialist software to fine - tune campaigns further, just like 51 % of businesses in the UK.

TPG's United States boffins were all over the US assets and are right behind the push by Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke to pick up some extra luxury wine assets, but only in a small way.

Sure, the grizzled old pro in a touchline windcheater, pulling into Newport Pagnell service station at 2 in the morning on his way back from Underhill still exists, but so do the Prozone boffin huddled over a computer and the budget airline fanatic.

But still he is viewed by the media and the public as a nervy boffin, incapable of making the tough calls demanded by leadership.

For today the wise boffins of the LSE and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published Towards a More Equal Society?

Boffins raise five - week - old fetal human brain in the lab for experimentation.

Contrary to popular media opinion, scientists are not all identikit spec - wearing boffins with crazy hair.

Designed to foster interest in science through the moving image, Science Cinémathèque provides a welcome antidote to the mad boffins of yesteryear.

No wonder the poor old boffin had all these calculations to do.

Orchid boffins are baffled by the new data.

Maybe the maths boffins could do some calculations for us?

Not everybodys convinced that forty eight boffins crunching numbers in They both used the site to meet more people and go on more dates, while using their limited free time efficiently.

Before your first search you're informed that your profile will be reviewed over a 24 hour period in order to get the full recommended match treatment from the site boffins.

But intertextuality forms the backbone of this body of work, with each refresh paying homage to a new wave of classical horror tropes via cinematography, music and familiar dialogue from the vaults of Hollywood horror — much to the delight of genre boffins everywhere.

Long story short, Lena gets herself recruited to the intrepid all - girl band of boffins making a fresh bid to get to the bottom of the Shimmer enigma.

There is the gang, too, led by Charlie Croker (Wahlberg), with a techno boffin (Seth Green), explosives expert (Mos Def) and wheelman (Jason Statham); Donald Sutherland takes over from Coward as the criminal mastermind, Mr Bridger, in an all - too - brief appearance.

You have seen Morgan many, many times, as it tells an old story: a corporation finances a wacky science experiment; something goes terribly awry; a company stooge has to square off against earnest boffins and say things like, «I've been authorised to shut this place down.

At first, the actor looks like he's in different territory to his now legendary Euro - trashing revenge flick: Dr Martin Harris (Neeson) is in Berlin for a conference with his wife, Elizabeth (Jones), and is a mild - mannered, well - dressed boffin.

Instead, what writer / director Mike Cahill (Another Earth) gives us is a tale about young ambitious boffins uncovering replication in the seemingly unique patterns of the human iris.

Nichols is served superbly by Dunst, Edgerton, Shannon and a winning Driver, who was surely born to play sympathetically bemused boffins.