Sentences with phrase «thick glasses at»

Leave those heavy tomes and thick glasses at home; if you want to appear intelligent, try these research - backed strategies that were among a long list recently rounded up by PsyBlog.

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«If we were at the thickness that was introduced with the first smartphone, your phone wouldn't break in a normal drop event,» said John Bayne, vice president and general manager of Gorilla Glass at Corning, the 167 - year - old glass maker whose Gorilla 5 offering runs about 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm tGlass at Corning, the 167 - year - old glass maker whose Gorilla 5 offering runs about 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm tglass maker whose Gorilla 5 offering runs about 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm thick.

A few years later, on one of my first vacations with my husband to be, I remember having a wonderful and simple crab lunch at Café de Turin in Nice, along with a nice bottle of white wine served in really small and thick wine glasses, that give the impression they've been chosen specifically to give an understated feel to the experience, so as not to feel too fancy about the whole thing.

My dad is looking at the camera with his same grin, huge glasses and thick beard.

Labor Day weekends of my childhood were spent shopping for school supplies at a beat - up Staples and turning 100 pounds of Jersey tomatoes into a thick, deep red sauce that was packed in glass jars and stored in the basement.

1) Combine cut figs and sugar in a medium bowl and let it sit for 1 hour 2) Place fig - sugar mixture in a medium saucepan over low heat, mix in 1 cup of water, lemon zest and juice 3) Stir mixture every now any then, letting it simmer for about 45 minutes or until it reaches jam consistency 4) If mixture becomes too thick, add in 1 tablespoon of water at a time 5) While mixture is cooking, sterilize glass jar with boiling water 6) Remove jam from heat and spoon into sterilized jar, place the sprig of fresh rosemary in the jar, and cover.

Order a fruit plate at the clandestine Carthage Must Be Destroyed — the mostly unmarked café at the end of an industrial driveway in Bushwick, Brooklyn — and you're presented with a Pepto - pink plate overflowing with fresh blackberries, vibrantly ripe whole strawberries, a thick slab of mango to scoop out of its skin, red - dappled soccer game - style orange wedges, whole handfuls of mint sprigs, and a glass cup of thick, tart yogurt drizzled with passionfruit.

On a Wednesday morning in August, Schwarzschild — dressed in jeans, a blue T - shirt and thick black glasses — set out from her Park Slope brownstone for a prenatal checkup at the edge of East Harlem.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

In a paper published in Science Advances, ICFO researchers Roland Terborg, Josselin Pello, Ilaria Mannelli, UPC Prof. at ICFO Juan P. Torres and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri, have built a novel low - cost, compact on - chip microscope, made with consumer electronic products, capable of simultaneously measuring nanometer - thick changes over a large volume (0.5 cm ^ 3) in transparent objects such as glass.

The flexible cladding, which can withstand temperatures of at least 1200 °C, is a sandwich of three layers of ceramic fibre, each around 0.25 centimetres thick, interspersed with layers of silicon - coated glass fibre and thin aluminium foil.

What's left is a thin layer of glass supported by an inch - thick honeycomb structure that is three feet deep at the perimeter and 18 inches in the center.

«In our paper, we studied only polystyrene structure and what happens to this structure at glass transition when you go to very thin, nanometer - thick films,» Lyulin said.

The models all looked like mini Jenna Lyons — particularly the one styled in thick framed glasses — as they should be; J.Crew's president and brand poster girl is the woman we all (or at least many of us) aspire to dress like.

One is where Squints, a boy on the team with very thick glasses, decides to get the lifeguard's attention at the pool.

When «The Past» opens, we see a couple communicating through a thick pane of glass at an airport.

Dayton dons a straw fedora hat and they both wear round, thick - framed glasses, and look as though they could be hipsters at a cool vintage shop.

Thick, acoustic glass insures a quiet cabin even at higher speeds.

The steel is thicker, the glass thicker, and the parts all look they were made in a machine shop one at a time.

Other measures aimed at improving comfort include a thicker door glass, revised door sealing and a foam - filled windshield header beam.

After driving through the quarter - inch - thick glass and climbing two flights of stairs, Lutz parked the vehicle at the Jeep / Eagle display.

In terms of road noise, Subaru's efforts to quiet down the cabin with thicker glass, and acoustically treated windshield, and additional insulation have paid off as well, and the latest Forester feels more premium overall feel at speed for it.

The glass - free prototype display (which you can see above) is a full - color AMOLED that operates at 60Hz and is only 125 microns thick.

By looking the phone at first sight, you will think that it is a bezel-less smartphone but the company has smartly covered the thick bezels with black glass.

The Motorola RAZR is the thinnest smartphone in the world at only 7.1 mm thick at its thinnest point and includes a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Advanced display, covered in a Gorilla glass screen and a woven Kevlar back plate.

That quality does not detract from this 10 - inch tablet's glass and fiber polyamide design; and it still manages to be just.27 - inches thick and weigh in at around 1.09 lbs, making it one of, if not the thinnest, 10 - inch tablets on the market.

At just 9.7 mm thick and 7 - inches in the diagonal, the QNX - powered tablet is nice looking slab of glass.

Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues, muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.

On a second trip, I marveled at the thick, gray glass posing as mirrors onto on a more pertinent reality.

A few mm of window glass is quite transparent, with the impurities only absorbing a very tiny fraction of the radiation, but a window 100 metres thick would not pass any light at all, there's no where for the radiation to «slither through».

A kilometer's thick layer of greenhouse gases doesn't conduct very well at all, unlike a thin pane of glass or polyethelene.

Designed by engineering giant Arup Associates, with aquarium specialists Reynolds, the 25 - metre - long pool will be completely «structure free» and made of 20 cm thick glass sheets, through which swimmers will be able to gaze at the lesser residents of Wandsworth below.

At the risk of rehashing our iPhone 4 review, it's two slabs of glass, bonded together with a thin metal band that runs around the edge, forming a sandwich just 9.3 mm thick.

While the iPhone 6 adopted rounded edges and a curved display, the iPhone 5s and SE have a boxier design with a thicker body, chamfered edges, flat display, round volume buttons, glass antenna inserts, a power button located at the top of the device, a flush camera, and a pill - shaped rear flash.

In terms of Design, The Moto Z Play features a Flat glass back with an aluminum frame at 7 mm thick.

Gone is the traditional curved back and plastic exterior with slightly chunky dimensions; in is a chassis that's only 9.3 mm thin at its thickest point and a new stainless steel and glass industrial design.

«Synaptics» FS9100 family of fingerprint sensors represent a new breed of optical fingerprint sensor technology that is designed to meet the needs of mobile devices, including the ability to image through a thick 2.5 D glass,» said Anthony Gioeli, vice president of marketing in the biometrics product division at Synaptics, in a statement.

At the same time, the entire outside of the phone is considerably thicker, wider, taller and heavier than the Galaxy S8, with a flat screen and no glass on the back.

Extending to the rear, a curvature — made possible by 3D Glass — helps the device feel better in - hand and slimmer at 7.99 mm thick.

Pretty small prices to pay for a stunning metal - framed, double glass panel - rocking slab that merely measures 7.45 mm thick, weighing in at 153 grams, and wrapping up its decidedly premium spec sheet with dual 12MP rear cameras, a single 8 - megapixel selfie shooter, Android 6.0 Marshmallow, fingerprint recognition, USB Type - C, and 4G LTE connectivity.

To achieve this, Samsung has put a 20 % thicker Gorilla Glass 5 on the front of the Galaxy S9 and S9 + at 0.6 T, compared to Galaxy S8's 0.5 T. Samsung has also used the AL 7003 high - strength aluminum on the S9 which doesn't deform as much as the AL 6013 used on the Galaxy S8.

At just 8.5 mm thick, the handset serves up a pretty decent spec sheet for its $ 128 EUR ($ 165 USD) price tag, including dual - SIM support, a 5 - inch HD display with Gorilla Glass and a two - year warranty.

When you look down at it, instead of seeing glass and metal, you see a thick white band of plastic (and glass and metal).

«At the media kickoff in January last year, he showed up wearing a cowboy hat, guns and a really thick pair of glasses.

Frameless shower doors are made from thicker glass than other shower doors — three - eights to one - half inch thickness as opposed to one - quarter inch thickness — so they tend to cost at least twice the amount of a framed shower door.

Roman Shades will have a thicker stack at the top of window depending on the length of the shade, but can be mounted outside and above the window frame if you'd like to keep your glass clear.

If you wanted to make it usable for Sonny at times, you could have a top put in place of thick glass or plexiglass.

I like these even better because the glass is thicker, and there's a big cork at the top of each «jug».

The Aria's beautiful dark wood veneered table top is mounted upon designer clear glass legs, and at 12 mm thick they are sturdy and durable having been certified to BS6206.

For about $ 30, a glass shop can cut a piece of glass to fit the top of your table (at least 1 / 4 - inch thick for safety purposes; also have the edges rounded).