Sentences with phrase «of turning the lights»

This is a great choice for people looking to automate the light switches in their house to save on energy costs, but don't want to take away the manual option of turning the lights on and off.

Instead of turning lights on and adjusting temperatures, it adjusts energy, it adjusts brain power, it adjusts sleep and focus, it adjusts respiration and hormones, all of these systems start to become dampen.

If you feel like your skin is looking dull, the last thing you want to do is scrub extra hard in hopes of turning the lights back on your complexion.

Adjusting the light you have to go thru the same menus as the Kindle PW but it is great that you can wake the device and not have to go thru the extra step of turning the light on.

Brooklyn based artist Charles Harlan showed his installation «Green Lights,» a commentary on the importance of turning lights off and Trent Wolbe from WFMU and other DJ's got event participants dancing.

The two most common are the motion sensor, which can detect movement and turn on lights automatically (common in office buildings for energy savings), and the touch sensor that's used as a modern way of turning the light on and controlling the dimmer.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

But perhaps turning the housing market into a non-stop source of light entertainment could have unintended consequences:

It took its logos off the building and shut off the marquee lights — though after years of public outcry, AMC began turning on the lights in the evenings.

He saw the night's sky turn to light as he heard and felt the rumble of bombs being dropped around him.

When DEA agents showed up at the Aurora site in March 2013, McKesson turned over a substantial number of documents to agents, including Aurora's monitoring program files that helped shed light on why the facility hadn't submitted more suspicious orders.

We had been at the company's office all day, just up the road in Half Moon Bay, but as the sun dipped enough to provide the magical golden light of late afternoon, it was time to switch venues and turn on the cameras.

As the computer began processing the data, the lights in the room were turned off so that the audience would be awed by the blinking Ping - Pong balls, a spectacle that became a staple of movies and TV shows.

When the light turns yellow, Phunware turns to a working capital line of credit, asset - backed loans, bridge financing, or equity funding.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

In addition to MintyBoost ($ 19.50), the online catalog includes in - house designs like the iNecklace ($ 75), a pendant shaped like an Apple gadget's «on» button, complete with a pulsing LED light; and third - party products that have earned the «Adafruit seal of approval,» like the MaKey MaKey ($ 49.95), a device that can turn any object that conducts electricity — a coin, cat, banana — into a functioning touchpad or keyboard.

On Saturday night, Uber's New York City Twitter account announced that it was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK airport in light of the protests against Donald Trump's executive order that bans immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

Because of this, the suit says that Coors Light marketing statements such as «Proudly brewed in the Rocky Mountain tradition,» «When the Mountains Turn Blue It's as Cold as the Rockies,» «What would we be without our mountains?

Brazilian scientists have developed a process to take the cellulose fibers of agave, pineapples and banana peels and turn it into lighter, stronger and more eco-friendly plastics.

«It was like a light bulb turned on and I realized I could do what I love and make a living out of it,» says Sepeti, who is 32 - years - old.

From the Hue app you can turn your lights on and off, change them to one of 16 million colors, or set up what Philips calls «routines.»

He gave the example of California passing a law allowing one to make a right - turn at a red light after stopping first.

There are few better ways to get terrified this summer than by turning the lights low and trying your best to get out of «Resident Evil 7» alive.

As long as we understand the negatives (a false reward, not to mention a bright light shining up at your face all evening that turns you into an insomniac), it's possible that we're underestimating the benefits in this new form of communication.

He fixed the transformer connections and all of the lights turned on, prompting cheers from the students who had been learning in the dark for five months.

Turning off lights in unoccupied areas and rooms allows you to not only cut out unnecessary energy usage, but extends the life of lightbulbs leading to reduced maintenance costs as well.

Martin Zwilling mentioned Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley, founder of YouTube, as examples of great storytellers because they each turned» «me» into a «we,» by being able to tell a story that shined the light on an interest, goal, or problem that both the teller and the listener shared.»

By tackling a range of problems, from obsolete sewing equipment to inefficient lighting and poorly trained management, he believes he can turn a healthy profit for his investors while improving working conditions, creating a cleaner environment and boosting pay for employees.

Photosynthesis — the process plants use to turn light into energy — is especially something of an enigma.

The company is also experimenting with turning down the volume of music (or as Abercrombie's president mistakenly called it during the conference call, «noise») played in stores, turning up the lighting, and generally making its retail locations feel less like a bizarre form of torture.

As for the lights that line the armband, with the press of a button you can choose to turn them off, have them on steadily, or have them on and flashing for increased visibility.

The lack of contact complaints show that sometimes the «light sales touch» approach can turn certain customers off.

It will take pictures and videos, alert you of reminders and messages, teach through interactive apps, and connect to your home technology (such as turning on lights).

The couple joins a growing movement of chefs and restaurant owners, including celebrity chef José Andrés, who have turned to political activism in light of recent threats from President Donald Trump's administration, from deportation sweeps to an attempted travel ban and proposed border wall.

It's fun to turn your lights on and off with your voice (trust me), but there's also a lot of utility in it.

Sitting in a stopped car at an intersection, waiting for the light to turn green and traffic to clear out of the way so you can get where you're going is no one's idea of fun.

For New Scientist, I went for a ride with the developers of EnLighten, a new traffic app that predicts when red lights will turn green (it actually works, for the most part), and profiled 4K / UHD TV for the next issue of the magazine.

There's a seat heater, a button to control windows, and finally one to turn on the interior lights — for reading, of course.

With innovations like these continuing to come out of Dyson's company (another of its noteworthy offerings was the suspended Cu - Beam light series), he thus began to be rightly recognized as a pioneer in his field in a span of just over 10 years, which, in turn, heralded the next phase of his career.

Turns out, the moon isn't just a beacon of light in the night sky.

Developers are now turning many of Northgate's parking spaces into a light - rail station to connect the neighborhood to downtown Seattle.

The image above and animation below show the kilonova light burst, caused by neutrons radioactively decaying into precious metals, turning from blue to red over the span of four days.

A burst of gravitational waves alerted astronomers to the collision, prompting them to turn telescopes toward the crash site some 130 million light - years from Earth.

You build a mine, you build an upgrader, which turns bitumen into the equivalent of light, sweet crude ready for the refinery.

Instead of relying on employees to turn off lights, Laflamme installed devices that shut off lights automatically when no motion is detected.

In the early morning light the 148 - foot blades of many of the dozens of turbines that he passes on the way to work are already turning above him.

Then, on October 17, 1997, a Chevy Suburban ran a red light and plowed into the side of her gray Mitsubishi Eclipse, which was waiting to make a left - hand turn at an intersection.

Spying by the National Security Agency is another concern in light of revelations coming from Edward Snowden, the former agency contractor turned whistleblower.

Just as I turned in to the parking lot a warning light appeared on the dash, indicating some sort of cooling system failure.

Can you repair a computer, a light switch that won't turn on, or a piece of plumbing that's burst?