Sentences with phrase «of useful devices»

Once again players take control of a wide array of Marvel Comics minifigures, utilizing their various abilities to combat foes, solve puzzles, and smash scenery into its component Lego elements, rebuilding them on - the - fly into all sorts of useful devices.

It is this property that is relevant to optoelectronics, as it is the basis of useful devices called light emitting diodes.

Utilization of similar bandgaps in optical and electronic materials has been key to developing a wide range of useful devices.

Not exact matches

But as useful as they are, mobile devices probably can't take the place of computers for everything, all of the time.

I checked my cell phone carrier's website, and found that by the end of my planned travel for this winter and spring, the Solis would be less expensive than any useful international roaming plan I could sign up for — that includes the cost of the device and day passes, though factors in my travel companions who can also avoid the pricey roaming plans.

Lastly, the Paperwhite also has the fastest and most responsive typing input of the three devices, a useful feature when looking for new books.

Once that vision snapped into focus, Plank saw an opportunity not just to be a collector of human activity data but also to be the central processor that turns that data — regardless of whose device or app collected it — into useful insights.

You can also stream on up to 5 devices simultaneously, which is useful for families with lots of people watching on their own devices.

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.

It's a simple platformer that can be played for a few minutes at a time, yet its level creator also utilizes the device's various touch inputs in useful ways, which is more than can be said for a lot of Vita games.

This is one of the few times each day he's at a keyboard, since he finds other devices more useful.

This, of course, can be useful for entrepreneurs who require large amounts of media on their mobile devices — either for work or pleasure.

For millions of people with chronic illnesses, whether it's diabetes, heart disease or sleep apnea, these devices become dramatically more useful if they can collect and interpret medical information.

Davidson suggested that there is an even more disturbing aspect to the enterprises: «For those who may wish to establish a financial and political as well as religious base across the nation, this kind of thing is a useful but subtle and insidious device.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

Perhaps again the device of the window could be useful.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

And the cleaning devices look useful, I might have to go buy some of them!

The real value comes not from the devices themselves, but rather in the transformation of data into useful information.

There are many kinds of slings and other useful devices on the market today.

Tomy TF525, # 54.99 A compact model, with useful features like a night light, lullabies and talkback function, which can be controlled remotely, and also has the advantage of having DECT technology to limit interference from other devices.

Whether it's farmers or fishers suddenly being able to call around and shop around for the best prices for their crop or catch, or the ability of a rural laborer to avoid walking miles in (often fruitless) searches for available jobs, or the possibility, in some countries, to actually use phones as mobile bank accounts, the devices have proved useful in an astonishing number of ways.

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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.»

He saw the need for a reconnaissance device that would be useful in environments like the damaged buildings of Port - au - Prince.

One is a metamaterial that absorbs 99.75 percent of infrared light — very useful for thermal imaging devices.

His devices, from surgical sutures that monitor skin temperature to biodegradable sensors that dissolve when their useful life is done, share a unifying quality: They can slip seamlessly into the soft, moist, moving conditions of the living world.

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

Yet as the first generation of photovoltaic panels approach the end of their useful life, the prospect of these devices ending up in landfill threatens to tarnish their eco-friendly credentials.

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.

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.

Chemist John Pojman of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge adds that such roving droplets «might be useful as a pumping mechanism for microfluidics, converting chemical energy to mechanical motion in small devices,» such as the microfluidic labs - on - a-chip many researchers are developing as diagnostic machines.

The device was originally designed to extract useful fibres from the straw left after harvesting linseed, but also succeeded in processing samples of hemp with it.

Cola believes the rectennas could be useful for powering internet of things devices, especially if they can be used to produce electricity from scavenged thermal energy.

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.

For example, building a useful invisibility cloak — the kind that could hide a person or a military tank — requires crafting many little devices that pick up a ray of light on the far side of an object, away from the observer, and then relay that ray, row by row, around the object.

Deutsch, a University of Oxford physicist who drew up the first blueprint for a quantum computer in 1985, thought we were still 20 years away from a useful device — until last summer.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That, however, is just «one piece of the puzzle,» Chen says: In order to be useful for thermoelectric devices, a material must combine low thermal conductivity with high electrical conductivity.

Explaining this chemical quirk could help scientists better understand the operations of molecular machines, which may be useful for transporting information in electronic devices or delivering drugs to specific cells (SN: 10/29/16, p. 6).

The device will be useful in some situations, such as «extreme catch - up situations» after a long holiday, says Simon Parnall of pay - TV systems maker NDS of Staines, UK.

«The device is potentially very useful,» says Narayanan Menon, an experimental physicist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who says he's surprised that no one has done this experiment before.

He explained that the efficiency of a photovoltaic device is governed by a simple competition: light energy is either converted into waste heat or useful electronic power.

One of the most useful of these so - called mnemonic devices, I've found, involves associating names with word pictures or with other people you know well.

«The takeaway here is that these devices may very well be a useful alternative to manual CPR for patients who may be in need of advanced life support,» said the study's corresponding author Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, an associate professor of Emergency Medicine and clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at Penn Medicine.

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.»

Indeed, the unique characteristics of plants could become a source of inspiration for new companies that can produce smart and useful plant - like robotic devices.

«This will be useful for the «Internet of Things,» where connecting different devices and networks generates unsustainable amounts of heat.»