Sentences with phrase «power tiny devices»

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In addition to being light and flexible, it can extract electrical energy from human blood and sweat, making the device potentially usable as a power source for tiny medical devices inside the human body.

Each design differs slightly in the technical details, but the hurdles are the same: creating an effective device tiny enough to fi t inside the eye, powering that device, and getting signals from the detector to the brain.

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.

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.

Today's electronic devices are powered by transistors, which are tiny silicon structures that rely on negatively charged electrons moving through the silicon, forming an electric current.

Professor Georges Gielen, Vice Rector of Science, Engineering and Technology at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, said the next generation of electronics, including wireless sensor networks and other tiny devices envisioned as part of the «Internet of things,» require low - power, high performance chips.

A Stanford electrical engineer has invented a way to wirelessly transfer power deep inside the body and then use this power to run tiny electronic medical gadgets such as pacemakers, nerve stimulators or new sensors and devices yet to be developed.

More exotic ideas involve employing high - powered lasers or ejecting a series of tiny relay devices, akin to messages in a bottle.

A microwatt is a tiny amount of power, but it is enough for lab - on - a-chip devices, diagnostic tools and monitoring tools such as Mink's diabetes tracker.

e-cigarette (short for electronic cigarette) Battery - powered devices that disperse nicotine and other chemicals as tiny airborne particles that users can inhale.

To the left of the media buttons lies the power button, which between being tiny and mounted flush to the device makes it extremely annoying to use.

The Portal is a cereal - bowl - sized, battery - powered device that looks like a tiny ice skating rink and communicates with the Wii via a USB dongle.

The power and eject buttons are located on the front of the device, but since they've been made to mimic the LED strip, it took us a few seconds to realize that these tiny glossy strips were anything other than decoration.

Enable Bluetooth on the device with which you'd like to pair, then press and hold the Power button until the tiny LED flashes white and orange.

As we detailed just last month, users need only to position a base station in their home whereupon a tiny chip in a mobile device can connect to it and soak up power through the air.

The «secret» developer port on the Apple Watch has yet to be harnessed by third - party developers, but it definitely possesses cool powers, as this new video shows: The tiny port hidden by the Apple Watch band can actually charge your device faster than normal.

Though these tiny devices have transcended their limitations of processing power and storage in an explosive manner, powering them deep down are still chemical - based batteries, which have seen advancements but not that staggering compared to other departments.

You'd expect all this from a device with a tiny power pack, but with a 3900 mAh (14.43 Wh) reservoir, the Ascend Mate2 packs one of the biggest batteries we've ever handled.