Sentences with phrase «own small electronic devices»

When you literally tell a small electronic device such as Alexa to order more slow cooked beef pot roast, personalization of this device means that it recognizes YOUR voice.
With consumers more likely to buy products via their phone now, how primary packaging looks on small electronic devices has become a factor.
FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who made 50 straight passes at a Dunes crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.
To keep infants and children comfortable during travel, we recommend bringing small comfort items in your carry - on bag, such as small snacks, a security blanket, a favorite pillow, small toys, coloring books and crayons and small electronic devices.
Some studies have shown that tvs, laptops, and even our small electronic devices emit sufficient light to miscue the brain and promote wakefulness.
Much of the circuitry he works with already exists — networks of neurons, honed by years of evolution — and he augments this circuitry with his own small electronic devices.
«Potentially, a moving mechanical contact could be used as a way to make very good power switches in small electronic devices,» Li says.
Prof. Choi and his Ph.D. student Kun Joong Kim have developed a miniaturized solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to replace lithium - ion batteries in smartphones, laptops, drones, and other small electronic devices.
The company has already supplied the U.S. military and outdoor enthusiasts with portable field chargers, largely for communication and other small electronic devices powered by such cells.
As yet, electricity generated by the tattoo biobattery is too weak to power a watch, but researchers hope to enhance the design so it could eventually power small electronic devices.
Next Steps: Using pure protein opens up the possibility of shrinking biofuel cells to power small electronic devices, according to senior author Thomas Squier.
That's because there isn't much space to spare inside small electronic devices.
Luxe leather for the wi - fi café warrior, bold blogger or business traveler: stash cords and cables, cards and cash, passport and travel docs, plus an external battery and small electronic devices, including an iPad Mini, iPad Air, or iPhone.
In fact, their theory applies to words on paper, too, but, as he points out, there are advantages to using small electronic devices: They're prevalent, and it is much easier to reformat font size and spacing.
There are also increasing reports of thefts from vehicles with such high - tech security and videos of teenagers with «small electronic devices» gaining easy access to locked cars.
Another new addition inside the Avalon is the eBin, which conveniently holds small electronic devices.
Remember trying to squeeze several books into a suitcase for a long trip — now all those books can be on one small electronic device!
All donated small electronic devices go to our certified recycler for processing and earn funds to care for shelter animals right here in the Yampa Valley.
A microchip is a small electronic device, similar in size to a grain of rice.
A microchip is a small electronic device that is about the size of a grain of rice.
Look at Watchdogs, which allows you to hack into pretty much anything with a small electronic device (in - game, of course).
For pure lighting and small electronic devices small scale solar eleictricity is the best choice.
By far the most pronounced increase in electricity consumption and thus CO2 emissions from the lower income groups to higher income groups is in the use of small electronic devices that make living more comfortable for those who can afford it.
For those of you not familiar with what a Kill - A-Watt is, it's a small electronic device that you can plug into a power outlet, and then when you plug an appliance into it, you get a reading of how much electricity is used.
It's not just larger components taking advantage of Alexa — it's smaller electronic devices, too.

Not exact matches

The two - page, follow - up letter said that, in fact, only «a small number» of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices.
«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.
Top front has a small zippered pocket for small items such as crayons, tissues, electronic devices, or small toys.
Skimmers are electronic devices used to read and store electronic data, and they have advanced quite considerably over time; they have more memory and are much smaller (and more easily hidden).
Gallium nitride is a more efficient semiconductor material than silicon, creating the potential to make electronic devices that are smaller, lighter and more efficient, Ramanathan said.
As our electronic devices get ever smaller and more powerful, they are generating mountains of data — documents, pictures, videos, and so on.
The study sample size was small and it used only one intensity of light, 1,000 lux, which is far greater than the intensity of a typical handheld electronic device, she notes.
For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.
At the base of their pelvic fins they inserted small electronic tracking devices, able to calculate position and depth, and then released the young sharks back into the water.
Silicene may turn out to be a better bet than graphene for smaller and cheaper electronic devices because it can be integrated more easily into silicon chip production lines.
«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.
A biological battery also holds the promise of being very small in size, a boon in an age of ever - shrinking electronic devices.
Novoselov says the miniature transistor will be well suited for the demands of ever - shrinking electronic devices, which require a lot of power packed into a small area.
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are small and light, yet can store copious amounts of energy, making them ideal for use in everyday electronic devices such as iPods and laptops.
«RAM is placed on the silicon chips used in electronic devices, and the companies that make these chips have it down to a science,» says Jim Handy, a director with Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market - research firm based in Los Gatos, Calif. «Every year, they put more memory on smaller chips while keeping their prices relatively steady.
Experts say the Stanford achievement will galvanize efforts to find successors to silicon chips, which could soon encounter physical limits that might prevent them from delivering smaller, faster, cheaper electronic devices.
Poon's team built an electronic device smaller than a grain of rice that acts as a pacemaker.
NASA engineers now report that they have demonstrated that a set of small but critical electronic devices developed for the new telescope can withstand the rigors of launch and can travel into deep space.
With today's device microprocessors, electric current passes through transistors, which are essentially very small electronic switches.
The flashlight's battery is far too small to create a plasma on its own, so the researchers use a common electronic device known as a DC booster to step up the voltage to 10 kilovolts.
Smaller, faster, cooler: graphene transistors show promise for practical analog signal processors, for magnetic memory devices, and for self - cooling electronic circuits.
A person wearing a shirt tailored from the material only has to move around to power a small screen or other electronic devices.
10, found that for readers with dyslexia, the choice may be clear: an electronic device, as long as the screen is small.
What they found was that reading comprehension and speed increased significantly for many students when they read short lines — one to three words per line — on a small - screen electronic device like an iPod Touch or smartphone.
The transistor could enable smaller, less power - hungry devices; it could not handle the power that the electronic products of that age — tabletop radios, floor - standing televisions, and early digital computers — required.
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