Sentences with phrase «developing practical devices»

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Researchers said the gains are a significant advance in their ongoing work to develop and test a practical BCI assistive technology that people with paralysis could use easily, reliably, independently, and on demand to regain control over external devices.

She says that there may be practical applications in the future — a commentary accompanying the paper suggests that the method could aid in the development of technologies such as molecular wires, atom - thick conductors that could help shrink electronic devices — but that their result concerns «extremely fundamental» physics that might be just as valuable for developing quantum intuition in the next generation of physicists.

Gimzewski, a physicist at ibm's research laboratory in Zurich, made the device — which admittedly has no immediate practical application — to demonstrate the sophistication of the techniques he and his colleagues have developed for manipulating individual molecules.

«We learned that devices that can be worn for a week or longer for continuous monitoring were needed for practical use in medical and sports applications,» says Professor Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering whose research group had previously developed an on - skin patch that measured oxygen in blood.