Sentences with phrase «smaller devices make»

It's now common to see people using their tablets during the morning commute or catching up on the day's news in a local coffee shop, and smaller devices make it easier to handle.»

In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator, or U-TENG — a small device made simply of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations.

In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator or U-TENG, a small device made of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations.

Not exact matches

Some of these phones are very cheap, and Amazon is making a small selection of great budget devices even cheaper with Amazon Prime Exclusive phones, which are subsidized with advertisements.

Many BlackBerry devices now run on Android, though those also make up a small proportion of the overall smartphone market.

Sony's obsession with making popular devices smaller helped perpetuate Japan's reputation for producing technology in miniature.

It's a small change, but it's making device prices more transparent.

This includes tailoring sizes to fit smaller screens and making content easy to read on a mobile device.

«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.

DISH is expected to launch an Internet of Things network — for bringing small, data - sipping devices online — in the next few years, but a deal with Sprint would instantly make DISH a key player in the mobile market, and give it even greater opportunities to utilize its wireless spectrum.

The company was the leader in wearable tech devices; it was snatching up smaller players like Pebble to build out its wearable strengths; and it got out ahead of the wearable market even before big tech companies made their moves.

4 A «Qualifying Purchase» is any signature - based purchase, Internet purchase, phone or mail - order purchase, bill payment, contactless purchase (purchases made by holding your Visa card or other device up to a secure reader instead of swiping your card), or small dollar purchase for which you are not required to sign, made with an enrolled Visa card, which is processed or submitted through the Visa U.S.A. Inc. payment system.

Like HP, Samsung, Toshiba, RIM, and others have made significant investments into the Tablet device but are combined a very small fraction of the market share.

Plus, if you make these in small cups like I did they are a perfectly acceptable dessert portion (which I can not say when I am left to my own devices at a do it yourself fro yo joint).

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.

The handy little devices made by Fitbit prove, once and for all, that fitness comes not only from the big workouts and sweaty hours spent in the gym but also from the small choices that add up to meaningful differences: the extra steps taken to walk to a meeting instead of ride the subway or take a taxi, the escalator ignored in favor of the stairs, and the extra hour of sleep chosen over one more TV show or one more chapter of your book.

The Boon Mush will be ideal device for parents who want to make fresh food for their babies, but in small quantities.

Instead, it makes natural white noise by operating a very small fan blade inside of the inner acoustic chamber of the device.

The small size of this device makes it easy to place around the home as well as helping to keep it low profile around whichever room you decide to place it in.

An IUD is a small T - shaped device made of flexible plastic that's inserted into the uterus by a healthcare provider.

BASC Scotland director Dr Colin Shedden said: «BASC and many other organisations and individuals made the case that the use of such remote training devices had been incredibly helpful in addressing problematic behaviour, such as sheep worrying, in a small number of dogs.

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.

The decision makes Schenectady County the first in the Capital Region to opted out of the state law that allows sparklers, party poppers and other small exploding devices.

The curved head focuses more of that suction in a smaller space, making the device even more effective for vacuuming your seats and floorboards.

There is no bulky device with this purchase — only a 400 - watt power pod for making small, individual portions.

But these devices can't be made very small.

Although 3 - D technology sans specs is available for small screens on smartphones and portable gaming devices, these devices use backlit LCDs, which can be a big battery drain and limits how small the gadgets can be made.

If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

«If we are able to convert light, which is electromagnetic energy, into motion, or convert motion into electrical energy, then we have the potential to make molecular devices much smaller,» he said.

But rather than natural diamond, Silvera and Dias used two small pieces of carefully polished synthetic diamond which were then treated to make them even tougher and then mounted opposite each other in a device known as a diamond anvil cell.

It says the bigger carriers, especially AT&T, have used their market power to ensure chip designers and device makers make equipment compatible with their flavor of the technology, leaving smaller carriers in the cold.

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.

«Potentially, a moving mechanical contact could be used as a way to make very good power switches in small electronic devices,» Li says.

But engineers are approaching the limits of how small they can make silicon transistors and how quickly they can push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros.

All these devices stand to be significantly improved — made cheaper, smaller, more capable, faster.

These shortcomings, as well as the same demands that drive most technological innovation — to make it smaller, faster, cheaper, less prone to failure — have produced a number of candidate data - storage technologies in recent years, all of which offer some combination of advantages over the devices in wide use today.

This change made the device's measurements less sensitive to small bends that the fiber might experience when inserted into a sample.

The advances will likely contribute to making the next generation of ultralow - power communications and sensory devices smaller and with greater detection and tuning ranges.

One approach is to use them to make high - performance, small devices that would replace silicon.

The batteries also make up a small fraction of the device's weight and cost, regulating small amounts of energy.

Thus, the new flat - panel device has smaller energy loss compared with other current lighting devices, which can be used to make energy - efficient cathodes that with low power consumption.»

We want to make the system faster, easier, smaller, fully implanted, more portable, less requiring of an expert researcher or caregiver, and more nimble in its ability to provide control of external devices.

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.

This makes the device smaller while keeping the same properties that were used in the past experiments.»

Soon concerns about smaller machines having inferior image quality compared to devices many times larger and more expensive were outweighed by evidence that rapid diagnostic decisions could be made with portable machines.»

«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.

He suggests that reaching 5 percent power conversion efficiency would justify the investment for making small, flexible solar panels to power devices such as smart phones.

According to the researchers, small VAWTs possess the ability to effectively operate in the presence of high turbulent flow, which makes them ideal energy harvesting devices in urban and suburban environments.

«We need to make these devices as small as possible to more easily implant them deep in the body and create new ways to treat illness and alleviate pain,» said Poon.

That's exciting, he says, because it's «probably less delicate and more robust,» and should inspire engineers to make extremely small, sensitive microphones that can hear in ultrasonic frequencies, as well as improve medical devices like hearing aids.