Sentences with word «micromachine»

The propellers may one day provide the designers of micromachines with a source of power for their creations.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), the Indiana University School of Optometry, Boston Micromachines and the University of California, Davis, built three of these adaptive optics — optical coherence tomography (AO - OCT) systems, with help from the National Eye Institute.

Lin and Fleming were able to draw on technology that Sandia has perfected for making micromachines — tiny gears and wheels carved out of silicon using variations of the techniques that produce computer chips.

Although there is no immediate practical application, De Heer says the tubes might one day provide an easy way to make atomic - scale wires for use in micromachines.

«SRI INTERNATIONAL began work on artificial muscles in 1992 under contract to the Japanese micromachine program,» says Ron Pelrine, the physicist - turned - mechanical engineer who leads the SRI team.

Findings are detailed in a research paper published online Feb. 3 in the journal Micromachines.

One is that, unlike many other micromachines, each microgripper can be used only once; the other is that the chemicals used to open and close the grippers are not biologically friendly.

Apart from the lavishly designed tracks, Micromachines offers gamers a variety of different gameplay modes and allowsplayers to play one of eight different characters.

While every one of the diverse members of this fleet of micromachines attempts to wield «sportiness» in some way, shape or form — from the new 4 - door hardtop, to the wagon-esque Clubman, to the crossoverish Countryman and two - door Paceman that simply defy classification — the John Cooper Works hardtop exists at the pointiest end of both the brand and the hot - hatch segment at large, and is thus the one that best captures our attention.

There are a few solid racing games out there for Android featuring the sort of top - down isometric viewpoint where your vehicles look like Micromachines.

The basicpremise of Micromachines is a racing game that is set in the world of miniaturecars and the main objective of the game is to win the race by anyway you can and thatalso means to sabotage other racers.

«It's always been my opinion that micromachines are far too big, so if you can shrink them down, that's a great advantage,» says Gimzewski.

But the micromachines are more diverse than previously thought, new research suggests.

It should benoted that Micromachines isn't your standard racing game as it involves avariety of different weapons and powerups that are littered across the racingfield.

The late1980's and early 1990's were the years when everything had to be tiny and thegaming world was first introduced to Micromachines.

Graphically, Micromachines is an extremely good looking game and the developers have done anextraordinary job on the attention to detail.

Musically, Micromachines won't win any awards but it will help gamers get into the mood for this fun racing title.

The Micromachines seriesfeatured small matchbox style cars racing around familiar environments such askitchen sinks, dining room tables or gardens and helped set it apart from theplethora of racing games of that era.

Micromachines can not be compared with anything on the market at the moment and unless you have been a gamer for the last twenty years, you will be quite impressed by this fun little title.

The interface of Micromachines is anoverhead view that shows the tops of the cars but unfortunately this can becomea little tricky when trying to steer on unfamiliar courses.

We all remember those fast and frantic arcade racers from the 90's; Micromachines, F Zero and of course Mario Kart.