While the other tips here are mostly designed to
give your device room to breathe and concentrate on tasks that are actually necessary, this one will physically make it faster.
Not exact matches
«Using the sensor in the
device, Project Tango
devices can also capture the 3 - D dimensions of the
room,
giving measurements that can be used to help you when shopping for furniture or decorations,» Lenovo and Google said in a joint statement Thursday.
Your
device's signal could be picked up by the receiver of a stranger's video monitor,
giving that person a live video feed of your
room while the transmitter is on.
A giant clean
room with more than 150 installed sampling
devices, it will
give scientists the ability to precisely control temperature, airflow, humidity, and other variables.
Companies like the MLB, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times were
given the actual
device under very strict compliance requisites of secrecy, like keeping the
device in an isolated
room with blackened windows while making sure the
device is fastened to a fixed object at all times.
The company that
gave us the BlackBerry - still the dominant phone in corporate circles - thinks its business customers will have
room in their briefcases for at least one more
device: the PlayBook.
The
device boasts the first lighted display of the Kindle family,
giving users the ability to read in bright daylight or in a dimly lit
room without the aid of a clip - on light.
Despite the jump in screen size from 6 to 7 inches,
giving 30 percent more
room for text, Amazon says the
device retains the same 300 pixels - per - inch sharpness of its predecessor.
That
gives it limited storage space, especially since there's only about 1 GB of space available for content, but that's still enough
room to store about 1000 ebooks (not bad for a
device that's about half the size of a book).
The
device incorporates a color electronic paper display which offers patient - specific appointment details, advises the place in the queue and
gives detailed directions to the appropriate examination
room.
Kinivo Travel portable Music Player Speaker In case you would like to listen to your portable music
device in your
room, on the beach, in the rainforest, or really anywhere — this is a compact, portable speaker that
gives your
device more sound and lets you share it with your travel partner (s).
Designed as a lifestyle hotel brand, all Cambria Suites properties are new - construction and feature a larger lobby to
give guests a more social atmosphere; all - suite
rooms that are larger than standard hotel
rooms and include separate living, working and sleeping space; and the latest MediaHub technology that allows hassle - free Internet connectivity for a variety of electronic
devices during their stay.
There's also some minor loot to be snagged along the way, like armor that
gives you some buffer
room or energy blades deal out a bit of extra kickey - kickey - punchy - punchy damage or even a handy
device that heals you up a tiny bit every time you suck up a soul.
The Xbox One might be notorious for its failed attempt to be the «center of your living
room,» but the Xbox 360 introduced the idea of a console as a multimedia
device,
giving users the ability to purchase movies, music, games, and demos as part of the Xbox Live Marketplace, while also setting the stage for our app - focused culture with its adoption of the Netflix service and many other third - party services throughout its lifetime.
The iPad automatically adjusts to
give you stereo audio whichever way you hold the
device, and the combined volume of those speakers is much louder than you can get with the standard iPad — you can watch movies and other video and easily hear audio from across the
room.
I would expect a
device with seven tweeters to provide truly
room - filling sound, perhaps from all angles
given that each of those tweeters could be aimed in slightly different directions.
It would be great to be able to walk into a hotel
room and easily mirror your
device's screen on its TV, or walk into an office and wirelessly connect to a TV so you could
give a presentation without messing with cables.
Bloomberg does still expect the
devices to go on sale this autumn, but points to results of Facebook - run focus groups suggesting that «users were concerned about a Facebook - branded
device in their living
rooms,
given how much intimate data the social network collects».
Considering PrimeSense's close work with Microsoft took the Kinect from a wild - eyed concept to a
device that's changing the way people interact with their televisions, it's not hard to see how the company's hardware and patent portfolio could
give Apple an edge as it (reportedly) tries to crack people's living
rooms.
That
gives them more
room to connect the
devices in your home more easily.
While it doesn't really eliminate the hassle entirely — since Logitech's setup software is a little awful — it does
give you far more control over the movies, music, and other
devices in your living
room.
This
gives the appearance that much of the face of the
device is taken up by the display; there's little «edge
room» around the screen.
Whether you already own other Sonos speakers or you decide to put them in other
rooms down the road, you can control each or all of them with voice commands
given to any Echo
device.
Given that six of these phones have already been released (Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, Moto Z, Huawei Mate 9 Pro, ZTE Axon 7 and Asus ZenFone AR), that leaves
room for five more
devices.
When we said, «Hey Google, good morning,» to the
device, it turned on a light in the
room,
gave us a list of appointments for the day, told us what the weather was like outside, and showed us YouTube videos on the latest news of the day.
But beyond those mobile
devices, we also saw Google introduce the Nexus Player, a set - top box running Android TV, intended to expand on what Chromecast did to bring Android into our living
rooms by
giving users a one - stop hub for both media and gaming.
Microsoft Lumia 535 seems a great buy for the price
given the surety of upcoming Windows 10 update and massive 5 - inch display although the competition from Redmi Note
devices is imminent currently but short supply still
gives ample
room for it to survive.
(Restoring the
device to its factory settings
gave me enough
room to download the app.)
With Routines, Echo
device users no longer have to
give multiple commands to Alexa, such as «Alexa, turn off the living
room lamp,» «Alexa, turn down the thermostat,» and «Alexa, set an alarm for 7 a.m.».
You may have to
give the
device a nickname for it to work properly, especially if you have smart bulbs installed in the same
room... though most people won't run into that problem.
Obviously, these larger displays
give device manufacturers more
room to pack in higher - end components and faster processors.
Go to the settings for each Echo
device and
give it a
room name, such as Living Room, Kitchen or Off
room name, such as Living
Room, Kitchen or Off
Room, Kitchen or Office.
That was a downer for anyone hoping to use the
device as their primary laptop, as it
gave you very little
room to save data locally and keep working offline.
The new $ 50
device brings Alexa to any
room in your home, who is a voice - controlled personal assistant that can answer questions, play music, turn on the lights, set timers,
give sports updates, check the weather, access over 3,000 Alexa skills, and much more.
The HEOS app
gives instant multi-
room audio control, meaning users can command music in every
room from any
device: play different music from different sources in every
room, group several
rooms together and play the same song.
And to
give credence to the idea that Amazon wants you to put one of these little pucks in every
room of your house, the company is selling multi-packs of the Dot, which let you buy six or 12 of the
devices at once and get a discount for doing so.
The winning element here is when you've got more than one smart
device by more than one manufacturer in a
given room.
Meaning, if you're listening to a song in the kitchen and you have another Echo
device in the living
room, they'll simultaneously play together
giving you a wider reach of sound.
So for example, if there is a Google Home
device in every
room, once an announcement (one of the examples
given by Google and shown below is «OK Google, broadcast it's time for school») is made, it will be audibly heard in each
room via each of the Google Home units.
This is the best part of having an Android
device — they
give tech - savvy users
room to play around with the root and in so doing, a lot of customization can take place, including flashing a Nougat - based ROM on the handset.
While it is easy to see the Galaxy S and Note series handsets sticking around for a while, usually, the mid-tiers fade away quickly to
give room for even newer mid-range
devices.
The ability to fill a
room with digital furniture and take accurate measurements are just a couple of reasons that Lowe's is set to be among the first retailers to have the
device, and Google just confirmed that the phone will see the light of day this November,
giving it roughly the same final release timeline as the Pixel phones announced yesterday.
AirPlay 2.0 promises to
give HomePod users the ability to stream the same song to different
devices in different
rooms from a single iPhone.
On any
given day, in operating
rooms across the country, surgeons look to medical
device sales reps to guide them through complex procedures.
It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate
room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order
room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS
devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too
given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.