Ergonomics & Electronics The Golf R's 5.8 - inch dashboard touch -
screen is tiny in an era of increasingly larger screens, and the small size — which made for a cluttered navigation map — wasn't the only problem.
For example, the interior is rife with similarly sized, indistinguishable buttons that speak to the car's Germanic sensibilities, and the infotainment
screen is tiny by modern American standards, navigable by a confusing knob or outstretched fingertips making precise selections that are almost impossible to execute given the stiff ride.
We could never get the correct view of the map, and
the screen was tiny.
The screens are tiny and navigating is a pain — usability is a big thumbs down in my book.
While the Spot's
screen is tiny, it's still a great feature.
By modern smartphone standards, the Gear S's
screen is tiny, at just 2.0 inches diagonal.
Below
the screen is a tiny bezel, just about the same size as the bezel just above the screen.
Neatly, the level select
screen is a tiny puzzle to complete as you go, too.
In design terms, as well as a superslim waistline - which makes it just 151g - the bezel of
the screen is tiny.
Not exact matches
«Today we
're introducing a new logo and identity family that reflects this reality and shows you when the Google magic
is working for you, even on the
tiniest screens,» the company wrote on the Google blog on Tuesday.
Netflix and other content services threaten to turn the TV into simply one
screen among many, and premium picture quality — once Sony's bread and butter —
is now a selling point for only a
tiny market segment.
There
's a trestle table down the center outfitted with a marble slab for each of as many as 16 students and a
tiny station in one corner where he can demonstrate his «deejay - twist» action to stretch dough and have it telecast by «dough cam» onto the overhead
screen next to the home - style ovens.
Filling out applications on a
tiny screen was too cumbersome, and storing a résumé on your phone wasn't always possible.
I
'm used to watching TV shows and movies on the iPad Mini's comparatively
tiny 7 - inch
screen, so the additional visual real estate
was almost an embarrassment of riches.
The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which
was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our
tiny planet
is but one blip on the
screen.
The
tinies bickered over who gets to blow out the candles at the end, and we
were all «BLOWING OUT CANDLES
IS NOT THE POINT OF ADVENT» and I read our devotional off the laptop
screen.
How it actually works: Literally, just like your smart phone — except with a much, much smaller
screen (so
tiny fingers
are a plus).
The books andwebsites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of «the baby», my midwife talks about listening to the baby's heartbeat and at the 12 - week scan, the time at which the majority of abortions
are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my baby's head and spine and
tiny hands
were pointed out on a
screen.
Because generations from now, even our children's children need to see how their ancestors
were forced to play pixilated, space - themed asteroid games on
tiny screens with limited controls, in an effort to pass the time before Xbox
was invented.
And a standard juicer
is not much more useful, as the fast - spinning
screen cuts the fruit into
tiny bits and aerates these particles, leaving lots of foam, and juice with less flavor.
Next thing I knew, I
was standing in a kind of heavenly airport control tower, with people you could see right through, all of them watching thousands of
tiny TV
screens.
There on the
screen, you meet not one, not two, but THREE of the
tiny beings growing rapidly in your belly.
UU Infant's video baby monitor
is a 2.4» color LCD
screen monitor with all the features you would want to help you keep a close eye on your new
tiny love.
Those three
tiny heartbeats flickering on the ultrasound
screen mean that life as you know it
is about to
be turned upside down.
Now, we have to think about everything from a
tiny phone
screen to a TV whose dimensions
are measured in feet.
But when writing these messages, you need to think about your main audience and the realities of the medium you
are working with — the
tiny screen.
In this case, I
'm not too confident that the results
are going to
be satisfying — I can think of few things more excruciatingly boring than staring at a bunch of talking heads in suits for an hour in a
tiny window on my computer
screen.
A
tiny disclaimer that appears at the bottom of the
screen just as the ad
is ending reveals it
was paid for by Panepinto's campaign.
We now live in a world where smartphones
are ever - present companions, a saturation that normalizes the sight of small
screens in
tiny hands.
The innovative thing about OLEDs (for organic light - emitting diodes)
is that lots of
tiny OLEDs can
be «printed» onto a single big sheet, allowing engineers to make a digital display that uses less power than a plasma
screen and offers higher contrast, a wider range of viewing angles, and richer colors than an LCD
screen.
To glimpse the oldest light in the universe, simply tune an old television between channels: the
tiny specs dancing on the
screen result from the antenna
being bombarded relentlessly by photons that
were emitted shortly after the big bang, some 13.8 billion years ago.
The chemical
screening only requires a
tiny sample of wood, which can
be prepared for analysis in just 15 seconds.
His glasses
are outfitted with
tiny tracking balls and sensors that adjust the projections on the
screen according to his movements.
Bonobos aren't burdened with having to read
tiny newsprint or letters on a mobile phone
screen, but they do perform one task that regularly requires close focus: grooming.
Gadget makers often rely on piezoelectricity — the ability that some solids have to produce voltage when pressure
is applied to them — to power
tiny embedded systems, such as a BlackBerry Storm 2's touch
screen or a car's airbag sensor.
The results — that
tiny head movements and typical binocular cues of motion
are there for the taking in virtual reality, but that most people only use them if they
are actively shown how VR differs from a flat computer
screen — should help virtual reality creators improve uptake of their products.
Part of the problem
is the lack of resources we ourselves direct to food from abroad: The FDA has a minuscule team of some 1,500 inspectors devoted to food imports, a workforce too small to
screen more than a
tiny fraction of the food that arrives at U.S. ports each year for microbial pathogens or other disease - causing contaminants.
A key advantage of this «target - based»
screening is that it uses biochemical tests that can
be done relatively simply in a test - tube — or rather, in a large array of
tiny test tubes via automated, rapid
screening systems that sort through hundreds of thousands of different compounds.
In the experiments, mantises fitted with
tiny glasses attached with beeswax
were shown short videos of simulated bugs moving around a computer
screen.
Worse, the watch's interface requires learning a mental map of the
tiny watch
screens laid out like an inverted T. Recent notifications appear as a vertical scrolling list, but «glances» (display
screens for stocks, weather, battery charge, steps taken and so on)
are arranged horizontally.
In the case of Google Glass, probably more distracting
is that you have to look slightly to your right to see the
tiny screen.
One
tiny speck of dust can
be enough to send a whole
screen to the scrap heap.
Therefore, these
tiny microRNAs can potentially
be used to treat complex diseases as AMD without having to perform extensive
screening for small molecule drugs.
And while Ive grown up to see the truth behind most misguided convictions from my middle school years — for example, that a white, fringed - leather jacket
is an asset to any wardrobe — I clung to the belief that a modest (OK,
tiny) bust at least afforded me some leeway when it came to getting
screened for breast cancer.
Sometimes you just need to unplug and live simple — paying attention to the way that you look, feel and perform rather than to what your vibrating smartphone
is announcing or soaking in the beauty of nature rather than having your eyeballs locked into a
tiny screen on your wrist.
We
're not saying you need to
be entering retirement as a yogi, but given today's sedentary lifestyles and the fact that so many of us conduct our social lives cowed over a
tiny screen, giving ourselves an ironing out in a downwards direction can aid in retraining our muscles to become longer and stronger upwards to.
(Note: this
is a teeny
tiny screen but larger TVs also fit on the 8 - cube Expedit.
When it comes to mobile dating, there
is nothing more frustrating than trying to navigate too many features on a
tiny screen.
Nothing has exploded on the
screen in recent years as violently as that mad quarrel in a
tiny room - a room that
is Israel itself.
Chances
are, Beatrix Potter would
be flattered to know that one day, more than a century after she published «The Tale of Peter Rabbit,» her most beloved character would
be reinterpreted on
screen not as a traditional cartoon (even though her work paved the way for the likes of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse) but as a photo - real, fully anthropomorphic rabbit, complete with opposable thumbs and a
tiny blue jacket.