Sentences with phrase «reader devices uses»

The new generation of e-book reader devices uses Electronic Ink, instead of LCD, to make ultra-flat, low - power electrophoretic displays that are easy on the eyes and look roughly like a super high - resolution etch - a-sketch.

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Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.

The question is hardly academic in my business; publications are scratching their heads as to how many readers will be using devices to access publications in the future, and how much resources they should devote to meet that demand.

The $ 29 reader will accept both magnetic - stripe and chip cards, and can be used with iPhones, iPads and Android devices.

mPOS devices usually use a card reader that is plugged into a smartphone or a tablet.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

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Theo Allen, a math student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering who attended Tuesday's event, said he'll be participating in the competition, and mentioned three technologies he'll look at: a gun that can be locked using a smart phone app; a gun activated by a fingerprint reader; and a gun that can only be used if triggered by a digital chip embedded in a nearby device, like a ring.

Broader access came in May, when Amazon released an application that allows many Kindle e-books to be read on Apple devices using Apple's VoiceOver — a screen reader designed for the blind.

«Our experimental setup consists of a paper device with eight electrochemical biosensors — for handy, one - time, disposable use — and a custom - made, handheld electrochemical reader, or potentiostat, to keep costs as low as possible,» explained Xinyu Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

The ERAD Prepaid Card Reader is a small, handheld device that uses wireless connectivity to allow law enforcement officers in the field to check the balance of cards.

There are jokes about Hitchcock's weight and alcohol consumption; there's a moment where he praises his secretary / reader / girl Friday Peggy Robertson (Toni Collette) and she almost cries for his tenderness; and, for God's sake, there's a suggestion that Hitch had a spyhole drilled into Vera Miles's dressing room, diminishing Norman Bates's use of the same device's metaphoric value in Psycho as a camera indicting audience voyeurism while introducing into the ecosystem this vile oversimplification of Hitchcock's obsessions.

When you see one, you can use your smartphone or any mobile device with a camera, QR code reader app and internet access (i.e. iPod) to scan the square.

Students can use any device that has a QR code reader app to scan a teacher - created QR code and instantly view a hand - picked website.

It will aslo help students look in - depth into the effect of the devices the writer uses on the reader.

If you can't find a specific book or publication in audio form, computer software or separate handheld devices with optical character recognition can scan documents and read them aloud using speech synthesizers or screen readers.

For example, for students with disabilities reading should allow for the use of Braille, screen - reader technology, or other assistive devices, while writing should include the use of a scribe, computer, or speech - to - text technology.

This is a resource that can help students with their revision of any literature book they study and helps them to learn and identify quotes and devices used as well as the effect on the reader.

In the short term, the migration from print to ePub3 was less about the books that more interactivities and accessible content, but was much more towards slicing the cost of production and delivery of the book across the wide range of devices like tablets and smartphones that modern readers were using.

This is a resource that can help students with their revision of any poem they study using SMILE and helps them to learn and identify structure, quotes and devices used as well as the effect on the reader.

A patient and attentive reader might be able to reconstruct them, but the authors could and should have used tables or other organizing devices to save us the work.

The multimedia device has Bluetooth connection for hands - free phone use and audio streaming, Aux - in connector, USB port, voice controls, SMS Reader and DAB device for listening to the radio with digital quality.

Some devices provide control over type size, font, or provide text - to - speech facilities that make them suitable for use by some print - impaired readers.

Although effective use of the DAISY format has required specific reader software (which may be implemented either on a PC or on a specialist audio device), the new version of the EPUB specification, EPUB 3.0, represents a complete convergence with the DAISY delivery format.

Use for Kobo eReader, BlackBerry devices, Apple's iBooks app running on iOS devices, Google Books app running on Android and iOS devices, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, and various other lesser known readers.

By allowing flexible characteristics in eBook formats, readers can have an enjoyable experience no matter what type of device they are using.

The total number of readers per device skews differently than the use frequency.

On Monday, Adobe released Adobe Reader Mobile 9, which improves the way smartphones and handheld devices display books and other documents that use the open PDF format created by Adobe.

I once asked book industry maven Mike Shatzkin about my rather eccentric views on all this, and he told me in an ensuing email: «You may very well be right about the differences between paper - reading and screen - reading, in trerms of brain chemistry, but just as nobody in the past heeded the calls that radiation and cancer might impact cellphone use, do you think makers of device readers will listen to you or even care if you are right?»

The format is not supported by any non-Amazon devices but Amazon has ported its Kindle reader software to Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and other widely - used devices.

On the plus side, the Reader Pocket Edition uses the ePub format, which is more versatile than the proprietary formats used by devices like the Kindle, as I explained in my October review of the Pocket Edition:

For recording and reading information from flash cards use special devices - card readers.

However, if there is no named entity, I would advise against using that special character because the odds are it will not be cross-platform compatible and will not properly display on all devices / readers ad 5) You will never get them to look the same way.

Adobe Digital Editions is used by millions of libraries and readers to transfer eBooks to their devices.

My no. 1 tip is use PageTurner as your reader software, because it syncs progress between devices, I can start reading something on my phone, move to my Nook, then pick up on my tablet all without having to hunt for where I left off.

Present gadgets that we see in the market using displays made by e-Ink include e-book reading devices such as the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.

If you are using it for a textbook reader, ebook reader, it really allows you to do things with this device that you can not otherwise do.

It is possible to see the foundations of the modern eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the original Kindle.

After your files are converted successfully, you can use and read them on any devices listed below (including but not limited to): Kindle, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, Sony Reader, Android tablet, etc..

Here is the message: «Text in your book is unreadable for readers using color devices and reading on a black background.

For example, e-book giant Amazon uses DRM which only allows readers to view books on Kindles or approved devices with the Kindle app.

On top of Reading Life, there is another reader - friendly service that Kobo is incorporating, which it is calling Reading Mode — essentially this is like an automatic airplane mode that you can turn on to cut off alerts from other applications, and at the same time it uses sensors on the device to optimise lighting on the screen.

You can not install the Google Play app on Kindle Fire devices, so you will have to use an alternate reader, such as the Nook or Kobo app on Kindle Fires.

Readers who purchase eBooks from Amazon read them on either a Kindle device, or on a smartphone or tablet using the free Kindle app.

One can guess that this is only good news for digital magazine publishers who want readers to be used to reading their magazines on devices.

The electronic devices, all touted as eBook readers, the killer of the printed word, were being used for other forms of entertainment.

it produce a new nodrm ebook file that user can convert to EPUB / PDF / TXT / RTF format ebook using Calibre, read them on iPad, NOOK, Sony Reader or other device without limitation, user also can print converted Kindle ebook.

If readers are using the Kindle app, that's a much easier transition, but if they're using an actual Kindle device, switching is much harder, especially in the short term.

Two years ago, Amazon acquired Mobipocket — the company's cross-platform e-book reader is designed to run on all PCs, handheld devices and mobile phones — and it is using that company to supply titles for the player.

Since we don't know what device or software the reader will use to read our eBooks, it only makes sense to utilize a format that has been designed for that very purpose, doesn't it?