Sentences with phrase «of tinier devices»

Materials made of ultrathin, 2 - D films could be ideal for building the next generation of tinier devices.

«The way to create viable, profitable technology in the nanoscale regime, and build billions of copies of tiny devices, is to harness nature's properties of self - assembly,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US.

While many criticized the 9.7 - inch iPad Pro because they felt it was too small, I was a fan of the tiny device.

Not exact matches

«Over multiple discussions, Steve later convinced us that he understood our vision, that he wouldn't just make Siri a tiny feature but something core to Apple's strategy across multiple devices, and that we could impact the world more as part of Apple than as an independent company,» says Cheyer.

Monisha Perkash, CEO of Lumo Body Tech, discusses the Lumo Lift, a tiny clip - on device that is aimed towards improving body posture.

But the electric system remains Edison's grandest achievement: an affordable and reliable supply of electricity has opened doors to great second - order innovations ranging from medical diagnostic devices to refrigerators, from massive electrochemical industries to tiny computers governed by microchips.

According to market share data from IDC, Android is used on more than 2 billion devices, only a tiny proportion of which are Google devices.

The MSC1 is a short - hop device that resembles a tiny telephone booth attached to rotors, capable of carrying eight kilograms a distance of up to eight kilometers.

But now a tiny plastic and metal device packed with cutting - edge technology attached to a computer could accelerate the pace of spreading that news - like an answer to prayer.

The seat of this baby stroller exists level, it has an excellent rate and also wonderful devices, as well as it folds up tiny for its dimension.

Your baby's organs, nerves and muscles are all starting to function now and although you won't be able to feel it, their tiny heart is now beating strong enough to be picked up by ultrasound devices like a Doppler, although this isn't always possible depending on the position of your baby in the uterus.

We should invent a device that starts out tiny in the uterus and grows into a perfectly positioned 6 pound baby shaped thing with a 40th percentile head that is highly mouldable and some way of triggering labour.

Now, we consume online content through a bewildering array of devices, from laptops to tablets to smartphones, on displys ranging from tiny to wall - sized, and with Google Glass and more on the horizon.

SQUID — or Street Quality Identification Device — is a tiny contraption that sits on the bed of a pickup truck used by the Syracuse Department of Public Works, designed to measure the quality of the streets of Syracuse.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology helps measure everything from the tiniest nanotech devices to massive aeroplanes.

But when University of Michigan biophysical chemist Raoul Kopelman, the tiny voltmeter's inventor, flooded rat brain cells with the devices, he detected fields as strong as 15 million volts per meter throughout.

The new device, described April 5 at the Materials Research Society spring meeting, contains a grid of tiny, inflatable bubbles, sandwiched between two soft, stretchy silicone films.

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so - called «organs - on - chips» — tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.

The scientists, who come from Princeton and the Georgia Institute of Technology, developed a new microfluidic device that traps and vertically positions tiny objects faster than before.

Now that has changed: Forward thinkers see it as an important energizer for the tiniest of machines, devices on the nano scale, and a few labs are working on ways to use the force to defy the conventional limitations of mechanical design.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

A new method for cooling down the elements of quantum devices such as qubits, the tiny building blocks of quantum computers, was now theoretically proven to work by a group of physicists.

Their stickiness makes it hard to get them through an inlet into a measuring device, but these compounds may play a significant role in the formation and alteration of aerosols, tiny airborne particles that can contribute to smog or to the nucleation of raindrops or ice crystals, affecting the Earth's climate.

A membrane — designed to support the cultivation and differentiation of human nasal epithelial stem cells — was inserted into a small chamber on the device and fresh or contaminated air was fed through a tiny channel.

Dubbed the «lab - on - a-chip,» the device promises faster result times, reduced costs, minimal sample demands and better sensitivity of analysis when compared with the conventional bench - top instruments now used to examine the tiny biomarkers.

The device consists of a gold nanoparticle, about 100 nanometers in diameter, embedded in a tiny cantilever — a miniature diving board — made of silicon nitride.

Folding up a single sheet of graphene according to the principles of the Japanese art of origami could result in tiny devices like nano - robots and flexible circuits

The new technology may prove useful in medical diagnostic or other devices where tiny streams of fluid could be turned on or off by switching the surface behavior of a material.

Dr Paddy Royall of the University of Bristol said: «This device looks a lot like a washing machine, but the dimensions are tiny.

Finding out involves passing a sample of blood through a microfluidic device, in whose tiny channels cancer cells can be captured and identified.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

The device, called StimDust, short for stimulating neural dust, adds more sophisticated electronics to neural dust without sacrificing the technology's tiny size or safety, greatly expanding the range of neural dust applications.

During moderate or vigorous exercise, sweat winds through the tiny microscopic channels of the device and into four different small, circular compartments.

The spacecraft for this venture would be tiny, wafer - thin devices loaded with microelectronics and weighing just a gram; they'd be affixed to sturdy, ultrathin sails of comparable mass.

«This device represents our vision of having tiny devices that can be implanted in minimally invasive ways to modulate or stimulate the peripheral nervous system, which has been shown to be efficacious in treating a number of diseases.»

The creation of neural dust at Berkeley, led by Maharbiz and Jose Carmena, a Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, has opened the door for wireless communication to the brain and peripheral nervous system through tiny implantable devices inside the body that are powered by ultrasound.

A nanomachine is a tiny device of less than a micron (one millionth of a meter, or about four one - hundred - thousandths of an inch) in size that scientists hope will soon be able to carry out a variety of medical and research functions, such as the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs, more efficiently and quickly than is possible today.

A team of researchers has fabricated a micron - scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light - actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.

Using power harvested from ambient light with a tiny solar cell — roughly the size of a grain of rice — the device was able to communicate with a base station that was 50 feet away.

«Quantum dots visualize tiny vibrational resonances: Innovative device could lead to the development of new sensing technologies.»

«We have shown we can use room - temperature, plastic electronic devices that allow us to see the orientation of the tiniest magnets in nature — the spins in the smallest atomic nuclei,» says physics professor Christoph Boehme, one of the study's principal authors.

The device consists of a balloon surrounded by tiny plastic tubes.

The test involves placing a tiny drop of blood, saliva, or other bodily fluid on a small test strip, which is then placed in a device developed at the JGU Institute of Physical Chemistry.

The latest version of the device, which can measure 50 to 100 cells per hour, consists of a series of SMR sensors that weigh cells as they flow through tiny channels.

The ball area of one of the boots is fitted with a tiny radar device that measures the distance each IMU travels with each footstep.

Not only can the handheld device sense the atomic - scale motion of its tiny parts with unprecedented precision, but the researchers have devised a method to mass produce the highly sensitive measuring tool.

«New chip could bring highest level of encryption to any mobile device: First use of quantum technology to create a random number generator that is both tiny and fast.»

«If we are successful, the tiny size and massive scale of this device could provide the opportunity for transformational interfaces to the brain, including direct interfaces to the visual cortex that would allow patients who have lost their sight to discriminate complex patterns at unprecedented resolutions.

«Faster, smaller, more informative: Device can measure the distribution of tiny particles as they flow through a microfluidic channel.»

The approach consists of a device filled with tiny channels and cavities that DNA molecules can move in and out of, resulting in some of the familiar Tetris shapes, like the «L,» the square, and the zigzag (illustrated above: a DNA molecule, in red, occupies four cavities in a zigzag).