Purpose -
built devices such as the GlowLight and Paperwhite clearly have a place in the tablet world, and while neither Barnes & Noble nor Amazon divulge its e-reader sales, it's clear that both companies are fully committed to the category, and customers are still buying them.
Not exact matches
The human mind relies primarily on visual stimuli to successfully interact with the world around it, which is why it's only natural for marketers to
build the vast majority of their strategies around visual media platforms, relying on high definition video playback
devices,
such as smartphones and tablets, to broaden their reach and bring the message across.
Streaming
devices from competitors,
such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Google's Nexus Player, have been touted as far better media players: speedier, slicker and
built for streaming Internet video in 2015.
Speaking with friends in the industry, it feels like a few years ago there was
such a move by indie developers to
build apps and put them up in the smart
device stores.
That means
building in features
such as encryption, authentication and the ability to remotely update
devices now, said experts.
While many smartphones have hotspot capabilities
built in, you can purchase a hotspot
device from cellular carriers
such as Verizon and AT&T.
Don't just rely on the
built - in audio capture of the video
device you use (
such as an iPad).
These days, Wurldtech is
building a presence in the medical space, developing security systems for Internet - enabled health
devices such as wearable insulin pumps and other wireless
devices that could be susceptible to what McDonnell calls «nefarious» forces.
The auto giant on Monday unveiled details about Project BLAID, a wearable
device designed to help guide visually impaired people through indoor spaces,
such as office
buildings and shopping malls.
Genesis car owners need an Amazon
device at home with a
built - in Alexa service
such as the Amazon Echo, its portable bluetooth speaker the Amazon Tap and Amazon Fire TV.
The software - as - a-service focused (SaaS) startup has
built device - agnostic tools provide services
such as notification engine, A / B testing, custom integrations and automatic user profiles creator to product managers and marketers, to improve UI on websites and apps.
She has spent 20 years
building software for
devices that aren't computers and has a lot of insights on how the internet of things is changing the role of
such engineers and the tradeoffs one makes when
building a connected product.
Apple has had an incredible run of products and may not always be as popular as it is today, but it has
built such a powerful ecosystem that years from now, it will still be making money from customers upgrading phones or buying services for their
devices.
While the article wove together a few strands from the common law, it largely
built its case for
such a right on «recent inventions and business methods»
such as «instantaneous photographs and... numerous mechanical
devices [that] threaten to make good the prediction that «what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house - tops.
Realizing the market for
such a
device went far beyond their kitchen, the Robertsons sold the restaurant and went into business selling hand -
built rotisserie smokers.
These
devices do not help children walk, and in some cases they hinder walking by encouraging movements that are not conducive to learning to walk,
such as
building up calf muscles instead of quads and promoting toe walking (from children using tippy toes to spin exersaucers or move walkers forward).
Newer Wi - Fi
devices, including tablets
such as the Apple iPad and Motorola Xoom, Internet - ready TVs with
built - in Wi - Fi, gaming consoles, and business laptops, are all dual - band.
For example,
building a «backpack» nuclear weapon still requires an industrial infrastructure and leaves a logistics trail; plus anyone wanting to rely on
such a
device would probably want to test it and there are systems in place to identify the seismic signatures of nuclear detonations.
But I also think we need to look into the future a bit as well, and in particular patterns of convergence - in other words, a point where the capabilities of the internet are
built into other
devices which the vast majority of the population are familiar with,
such as televisions and mobile phones.
«Air capture can close the gap,» argues physicist Klaus Lackner of the Earth Institute, who is looking for funds to
build such a
device.
These engineers design and
build the myriad medical
devices and healthcare equipment in
such demand these days, as computer - assisted surgery, orthopedic engineering, cellular and tissue engineering, and much else are called on to treat an older, fatter, and less fit population.
Engineers wanted blue and true green because with those colors, along with the red they already had, they could
build fabulous things,
such as a a white - light - emitting
device as much as 12 times more efficient and 12 times longer - lasting than an ordinary lightbulb.
From his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Rogers has bucked the trend,
building most of his
devices from silicon, a normally rigid material — but one that, due to widespread use and desirable attributes
such as outstanding thermal conductivity, has a track record of efficiency and low cost.
Within months a team led by David Smith of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, had
built such a
device using exotic «metamaterials» — materials with unusual electromagnetic properties that are not found in nature.
Although Barot did not
build the bombs, national security experts believe terrorists continue to be interested in
such devices for terror plots.
A new method for cooling down the elements of quantum
devices such as qubits, the tiny
building blocks of quantum computers, was now theoretically proven to work by a group of physicists.
«In a way, one must learn to see things from the molecules» point of view, considering forces
such as random thermal motion that one would never consider when
building an agricultural water pump or any other mechanical
device.»
According to Cheung, composers use
such devices to
build up our expectations and elicit strong emotional responses to the music.
A few decades later other physicists figured out how to
build such a
device for use as a powerful weapon or to read bar codes at grocery stores.
And because photonic chips shuttle photons instead of electrons, mobile
devices such as smartphones or tablets
built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile
devices.
In the future, the team plans to
build devices with hundreds of sites with which they hope to observe exotic phases of light
such as superfluids and insulators.
Electronic
devices are ruled by semiconductors
such as silicon, but superconductors — metals and ceramics that conduct electricity without
building up heat — are poised to make a power grab.
The main challenge in
building such a
device is to be able to read the data and manipulate it without disturbing the delicate quantum states of the atoms.
Engineers have been speculating about 3 - D chip architectures for years, but the change in skills and tools needed to
build such devices is so radical that the feat has never found investment sufficient to do the job.
Such a
device — if we can
build one — would overturn the field of cryptography and revolutionise the computer industry.
Smith is betting that someone will
build such a
device by the end of this summer.
«Ultimately, we are trying to develop new surface chemistry that allows us to
build higher ordered architectures on surfaces, and these might lead into applications
such as
building electronic
devices, data storage
devices or logic gates out of carbon materials.»
The third question, says study co-author Erica Kuligowski, includes a specialized and dedicated egress system known as an occupant evacuation elevator (OEE) that has great potential for getting people with mobility impairments out of a
building safely and quickly, without the assistance of others, and without having to leave behind their mobility
devices (
such as scooters, walkers and wheelchairs).
Most existing electronics,
such as the circuit boards in everything from mobile
devices to solar cells, are
built on brittle silicon wafers.
First author Minyoung Kevin Kim, a graduate student in Princeton's Department of Chemistry,
built experimental
devices that mimicked common environments in which bacteria are subjected to the flow of liquids
such as wastewater or bodily fluids: the interior surfaces of pipes, the crevices found in the lining of the intestines, and surfaces coated with biofilms, among others.
Researchers at McGill University have developed a new, low - cost method to
build DNA nanotubes block by block — a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds made from DNA strands to be used in applications
such as optical and electronic
devices or smart drug - delivery systems.
Hoping to gain insight into how to
build such a
device, she spent two years at the Laboratory of Physiological Acoustics in France, studying alongside René - Guy Busnel, an expert in bioacoustics, especially dolphin whistles and human whistle - based languages.
And because the material is so thin, transparent, and lightweight,
devices such as solar cells or displays could potentially be
built into
building or vehicle windows, or even incorporated into clothing, he says.
Using computer modeling, optimization software and complex algorithms, the team set out to
build metadevices that could bend or focus millimeter waves but that avoided problems with conventional approaches,
such low efficiency, narrow bandwidth and the bulkiness of the
devices.
McCall left it to his experimentalist colleagues to figure out how to
build such a
device, which he estimated would require 5 to 10 years to complete.
Dayan: «The road to
building quantum computers is still very long, but the
device we constructed demonstrates a simple and robust system, which should be applicable to any future architecture of
such computers.
If the carriers allowed these
devices to have Wi - Fi
built in, then many customers,
such as yourself, might opt out of the data plan and instead use Wi - Fi when it's available.
This framework will then be used to demonstrate a library of
devices such as waveguides, couplers, filters, amplifiers and modulators that will form the
building blocks of integrated on - chip circuits, systems and sensors over an extended wavelength regime.
Resume: Transparent conducting oxides
such as Sn doped In2O3 nanowires (NWs) have been investigated in the past since they are important
building blocks for the realization of novel electronic and optoelectronic
devices like solar cells, but In is rare and expensive [1].
We use the power of DNA self - assembly to
build and test nanophotonic
devices such as plasmonic waveguides for application in optical near - field communication, or for medical diagnostics and therapeutics.