Sentences with phrase «newfangled devices»

To do so, Arthur enlists the aid of his grandfather (voice of Bill Nighy), who despises newfangled devices and brings the old sleigh and eight reindeer out of retirement, and an elf named Bryony (voice of Ashley Jensen), who is inclined to compulsively gift - wrap everything.

There is a fun period film running on a monitor that explains how to use this newfangled device.

Doing so will ensure that it doesn't get dinged or scratched in transit, and will likely prolong the life span of your newfangled device.

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None of the components for the device, which can detect over 120 different driving maneuvers, are very newfangled.

Hardware-wise, Amazon has announced so many Echo devices in 2017 that it's hard to keep track of them, including updates to existing models as well as the Echo Show (with a 7 ″ screen), the Echo Look (which can take full - length photos of you and provide style recommendations), Echo Spot (a newfangled alarm clock), Echo Buttons (for Alexa - powered gameplay), and the Echo Plus (a speaker that doubles as a smart - home hub).

Verily has tinkered with miniaturized, newfangled medical devices (like a smart contact lens) since its inception inside Google's X research lab.

A newfangled data storage device, which takes up less than a millionth the amount of space of its predecessors, could be a key component of futuristic communication systems.

The key is lost on arrival to Earth, soon found by a couple of high school aged teens named Julie (Cox, Scream) and Kevin (McNeill, «Star Trek: Voyager»), who activate it thinking it must be some newfangled musical device.

After accepting a secondhand VHS camcorder from a perverted neighbor (NewsRadio «s Dave Foley, who bares a lot for the film) in order to settle an outstanding debt, Gordon cedes control of the (then - newfangled) device to his youngest son Teddy (Dylan Everett), who in good kind proceeds to torture his curiously stunted 17 - year - old brother, Marcus (Nick McKinlay).

I can imagine a crotchety Landy fanatic squinting skeptically at the seven - passenger family hauler, doubtful the 21st century ride will make it — after all, the newfangled Disco has nine damn USB outlets and can supply Wi - Fi for up to eight devices.

From syncing your books across devices to purchasing from a variety of retail partners, it's a pretty compelling proposition for relatively uninformed book lovers who've not yet made the switch to ebooks and have presumably not heard of a little company called Amazon and their newfangled Kindle ereader and related apps.

I also found myself noticing all the technology in the book: every now and then someone tries out the newfangled «shower - bath» with its needle - points of water, or makes a phone call and wonders whether one day there will be devices that transmit pictures as well as voices.

It still doesn't quite stand up to the console versions, though, what with their six buttons and miraculous amounts of media on these newfangled optical discus devices.

Just a couple of months ago, it debuted the Switch, a newfangled hybrid of portable device home console.

After all, if these don't fit some newfangled genre of device, surely Microsoft would simply call them VR headsets and be done with it, right?

Smartwatches were originally pitched as newfangled computing devices that would free us from looking at our phones so often.