Sentences with phrase «making useful devices»

«Nanoworld «snow blowers» carve straight channels in semiconductor surfaces: Researchers report important addition to toolkit of «self - assembly» methods eyed for making useful devices.»

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If researchers can show that wearable data is medically useful, it will make buying these devices more compelling for consumers as well as health organizations that are considering providing them to their patients.

This year, when Microsoft showed off an early edition of its HoloLens augmented - reality goggles, it took the opposite approach: targeting the software developers it needs to make the device useful.

The feature will not be ready any time soon, but it will make Alexa - powered devices such as the Amazon Echo much more useful.

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A year later, Yunji and his brother, Chen Tianshi, who is now Cambricon's CEO, teamed up to design a novel chip architecture that could enable portable consumer devices to rival that feat — making them capable of recognizing faces, navigating roads, translating languages, spotting useful information, or identifying «fake news.»

This makes them highly promising for solar technology, and also potentially useful in devices like electronic sensors and flash memory drives.

«High - tech electronics made from autumn leaves: New process converts biomass waste into useful electronic devices.»

The thin profile and minimal energy requirements of devices could also make it useful in flexible displays or as a security measure on credit cards.

Biomedical engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have now developed software that allows powered prosthetics to tune themselves automatically, making the devices more functionally useful and lowering the costs associated with powered prosthetic use.

Regular lenses focus and aim visible, infrared, and microwave light, making them useful in a variety of everyday devices such as cameras, cell phones, and eyeglasses.

Molecules are delivered from the AFM tip to a solid substrate of interest via capillary transport, making DPN a potentially useful tool for creating and functionalizing nanoscale devices.

As it thins to the atomic limit, it becomes fluorescent, making it useful for optoelectronics, such as light - emitting diodes, or light - absorbing devices, such as solar cells.

Fischer is developing new techniques for making graphene nanostructures that display unusual quantum properties that could make them useful in nano - scale electronic devices.

This fact makes vacuum UV light extremely useful for industrial applications from sterilizing medical devices to cleaning semiconductor substrates because when it strikes oxygen - containing molecules on a surface, it generates highly reactive oxygen radicals, which can completely destroy any microbes contaminating that surface.

«This is one push as to how we can improve the devices and make them more useful to people,» Wander said.

We've been trying to make materials, compounds, anything that can be useful to improve the processes to make thin films that find application in a variety of electronic devices.»

This would make them useful as tiny devices for storing information.

Brown University engineers have demonstrated a technique for making 3 - D - printed biomaterials that can degrade on demand, which can be useful in making intricately patterned microfluidic devices or in making cell cultures than can change dynamically during experiments.

The fact that the glass is highly hazy and exhibits high transmittance could also make it useful for LEDs, which work in a way that is essentially the opposite of a solar cell, by using electricity that enters a semiconductor to produce light that is then emitted from the device.

The «one - shot» memory devices that recent NIST research might make possible can be envisioned as physical keys that can only be used a single time, a useful feature for computer security applications.

«The resulting materials could be useful for making faster transistors that consume less power, or for creating efficient light - emitting devices,» Duan said.

The ability of the material could make it useful for an array of applications, such as inserting medical devices inside veins and arteries, or deploying new satellites that unfold in space.

«They can exert large actuation strokes, which make them incredibly useful for applications in human assistive devices: if only they could be made much stronger.

Mayer does something a little unusual, taking a snippet from the final act and making it a brief prologue of sorts, a useful device that brings the story — which takes place over two years — full circle.

Every new generation of the iPad has made the tablet more powerful and more useful, but the basic hardware features of the device have stayed roughly the same.

LG is billing the Optimus Vu as a device that could be useful for note - taking, but make no mention of an active digitizer screen such as those found on the HTC Flyer and Samsung Galaxy Note.

While 4K support through video out would be useful when connecting a tablet to a TV or monitor that supports 4K, you would need to hold the tablet up to your nose for it to make any real difference on a smaller device.

Amazon, Kobo and Sony say that if they were forced to comply with FCC regulations and make e-readers fully accessible to people with disabilities, the essential nature of the devices would change, making them more like tablets, more expensive and, overall, less useful for their express purpose.

Merel Technologies is busy setting up an apps store that will make available interesting and useful apps to the user, which will enable one to browse devices via Bluetooth, browse photos and classifieds, or even access video right on their table.

Even more valuable when you consider that an investment into content from Google Play is entirely cross-platform, making it useful for the entire family no matter the device they prefer.

Each of these uses makes sense, tablets are useful productivity tools that double as entertainment devices — making them perfect travel companions.

Other features also make texting and messaging life a lot easier, including: being able to review your messaging history across all of your devices (which is especially nice on a larger screen for those with a lot to say), easily send items from your computer (potentially giving you access to all of your documents and images, not just those that happen to be on your smartphone or tablet), save attachments to your computer where they are most useful (while not losing them on your other devices as well), and my favourite — universal copy and paste (copy text from one device and paste it on a different one).

The page buttons can be programmed for a number of functions in the settings menu, which is nice because that gives you more control over how to use the device and it makes the buttons useful with apps like Kindle that require using volume buttons to turn pages.

The PocketBook 901 eReader purposefully focuses on making its device useful specifically for educational utilization.

This spanking new 15 inch device will be a whole lot more than just a normal frame, as it will arrive with a slew of useful and unique features which will make it a «life companion».

You could argue that the PlayBook's WiFi capability makes it useful even for those who don't already own a BlackBerry, but given how many people and businesses lock down their WiFi networks to outsiders, that limits a WiFi - only device's use outside the home or office.

However the hardware performance and the display are top of the line and it provides a set of new software features that will certainly help to make the device more useful for work.

The best thing about the FLIPS is that they are not just books made to work on a device, the books have embedded features like links to information that might be useful or helpful to a new reader, collectible pieces of code that build into a readable text as well as illustrations displayed on a double screen in what seemed to me a most book - like manner.

Despite the small screen on the iPhone and iPod touch, being able to use an external keyboard for «real» typing tasks would make the device much more useful, and even let us leave our laptops at home for some trips.

Taking rich, multimedia content and making it more useful on smaller screened, slower conntected devices like cell phones.

Running the Gingerbread version of the Android 2.3 OS, Sony Ericsson has managed to make this tiny device useful even for more advanced smartphone users but it has also added a variety of enhancements that might appeal to some users.

They really dug deep and thought how best to make this a useful and fun device.

Both devices allow you to buffer multiple page turns, but the dramatic speed advantage on the iPad actually makes the feature useful.

One such device is a 6.8 inch device that runs Android and has support for a Wacom pen (useful, for people looking to edit and make notes on PDF documents).

It made me curious: We can theorize all we want about what should or shouldn't be the most useful in a professional or academic setting, but what do the people actually using the devices in these situations think?

I think that Nook Profiles are a nice idea that will be very useful to many people making it a great family device, but I think a few more options would make them better.

What makes the microchip useful is that it can be «read» by another device, the microchip scanner.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

If they make it a valuable and useful device to a PS3 owner, offered at a reasonable price, then I'll buy one.