Sentences with phrase «tiny devices for»

This would make them useful as tiny devices for storing information.

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The seat of this baby stroller exists level, it has an excellent rate and also wonderful devices, as well as it folds up tiny for its dimension.

A new approach to tiny fuel cells implanted in rats enables the devices to generate electricity for months using sugar in the rodents» bodies

Materials made of ultrathin, 2 - D films could be ideal for building the next generation of tinier devices.

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.

Now that has changed: Forward thinkers see it as an important energizer for the tiniest of machines, devices on the nano scale, and a few labs are working on ways to use the force to defy the conventional limitations of mechanical design.

A new method for cooling down the elements of quantum devices such as qubits, the tiny building blocks of quantum computers, was now theoretically proven to work by a group of physicists.

Aside from greater autonomy and resiliency, Ferrari said her lab plans to help outfit RoboBee with new micro devices such as a camera, expanded antennae for tactile feedback, contact sensors on the robot's feet and airflow sensors that look like tiny hairs.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

The device, called StimDust, short for stimulating neural dust, adds more sophisticated electronics to neural dust without sacrificing the technology's tiny size or safety, greatly expanding the range of neural dust applications.

The spacecraft for this venture would be tiny, wafer - thin devices loaded with microelectronics and weighing just a gram; they'd be affixed to sturdy, ultrathin sails of comparable mass.

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.

A team of researchers has fabricated a micron - scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light - actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.

Their test is in a device that includes tiny microchannels for a sample to move through.

Although physicists say the technique has a way to go before it can be applied, they envision its being used for developing tiny measuring devices or to make tiny generators.

«If we are successful, the tiny size and massive scale of this device could provide the opportunity for transformational interfaces to the brain, including direct interfaces to the visual cortex that would allow patients who have lost their sight to discriminate complex patterns at unprecedented resolutions.

For the first time, engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that could deliver the world's most secure encryption keys in a package tiny enough to use in a mobile device.

«This tiny device could have other exciting uses including in anti-counterfeit devices in bank notes, imaging cells for medical applications and holograms.»

When the surgeon determines the optimal placement for an artificial cord, the device is actuated and a specially designed needle makes a tiny hole and sends the cord material through the flap.

Last year, Albert Polman at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam and Nader Engheta, an electrical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, developed a tiny waveguide device in which light waves of a single wavelength also achieved epsilon - near - zero.

Professor Jürgen Steimle is convinced that «when only a tiny sensor needs to be deformed for input, mobile devices can be worn at places on the body that enable quick and discreet input.

Dorey says Britain needs a national library of information about suitable materials and production methods which manufacturers can draw on, and a training programme for engineers who will design and build the tiny devices.

To date silicon technology could provide ever tinier transistors for smaller and smaller devices.

Something like muscle might therefore be useful in driving devices for which building tiny electric motors is not easily accomplished.

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.

The device packs a big punch for its tiny size, Babakhani says.

The sheet can then be rolled into tiny batteries for cellphones or other devices.

These predictions, which were verified by comparisons with high - resolution microscopic images of real molecules on metal surfaces, may lead to controlled, large - scale fabrication of tiny electrical wires and other nanomaterials for future devices.

Now, for the first time, a team of scientists led by Professor Simon Schultz and Dr Luca Annecchino at Imperial College London has developed a robot and computer programme that can guide tiny measuring devices called micropipettes to specific neurons in the brains of live mice and record electrical currents, all without human intervention.

Jon Froehlich and his colleagues at the University of Maryland have developed a device, nicknamed HandSight, that uses a tiny camera originally developed for endoscopies.

This mechanical vibration can be thought of as a musical note from a tuning fork, but in optomechanics it involves tiny devices specifically designed for this purpose.

In 2015, Andersen and collaborators successfully implanted tiny prosthetic devices into the PPC of paralyzed patients; these so - called neuroprosthetics measure the movement intentions of the patient — to pick up a cup to take a drink, for example — and execute those movements accurately with a robotic arm.

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

In a paper published this month in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the researchers, including Prashanta Dutta, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Akron, present an improved and more effective Coulter device, used for the detection of the tiny microbes.

Researchers at Argonne created tiny swirling vortices out of magnetic particles, providing insight into the behavior that governs such systems — which opens up new opportunities for materials and devices with new properties.

Since these devices poke tiny holes into your skin, dermatologists say that using them will make you at risk for an infection.

Tiny Wings HD is the perfect complement for one of the games that have demonstrated a new winning formula of gaming on mobile devices: simplicity, accessibility and ability to play with one last finger.

Soldiers chase a group of adults and children in a warehouse type dwelling, shooting them with a combination sleep - drug and tracking device (please see the Substance Use category for more details); the people fall to the floor, asleep, and we see a tiny ball bearing stuck on the skin at the neck or shoulder; one woman rolls down a staircase (she is unharmed and awake), and a little girl cries and runs off screen.

I am considering getting this for the co-op mode, but I'll be playing with my buddy while we're outside, don't wan na end up like Rayman, which looked tiny on the device's screen.

This tiny, squat pig, cute if not for his gas mask that looks more like a medieval torture device than an air filtration system, has a lonely and aggressively difficult life, one of cumbersome responsibility.

With a donation of 30 fertilized trout eggs from the California Department of Fish and Game and a 20 - gallon tank and a water - cooling device provided by the Fresno Fly Fishers for Conservation, students monitored water temperature, fed the newly hatched fry, and released the tiny trout into the San Joaquin.

When a project will be accessed on mobile devices, we design it specifically for tablets or phones, rather than designing it for desktop computers and expecting it to be functional when it shrinks to a tiny screen.

Some imperfections are the poor sound system performance, the cheap look of the plastics, mainly on the doors, the noisy performance of the main front and rear wipers and a couple of tiny details that make the driver's every day life a little more frustrating like that you have to press a button if you want to see the time on the dashboard, the small digits (at least for over 45 years old drivers) on the trip computer and the difficulty on assembly of the Portable Infotainment Device in case you need it right now.

We sign up, stock and sell the readers and accessories, and the store gets a (tiny) commission on all Kobo books ever purchased for that device.

Design book covers to look good at a small size for book retailer websites and tiny mobile device screens.

While most of us would like to believe ebook readers are dead and multi-purpose devices like tablets and phablets are the way to go, the truth is there is still a market, albeit a tiny one, for dedicated ebook readers.

The tiny projector also comes with a 30 - pin connector for the iPad and supports MHL - HDMIconnected devices.

I called and complained to customer service who admitted they were only selling a tiny number of the devices for that price but checked my story and said I should've gotten one.

It is doubtful they make a penny from the sale of a Kindle, for example, but the average Kindle owner buys something like 15 books a year, and there is high profit for Amazon in downloading a data file with a retail price of $ 10 or more.Convince me there is another solution which makes sound * business sense * — not what you think a user would want to see, but a solution which would otherwise justify Amazon bringing to market a device which by itself would generate nothing more than a tiny profit to a small loss for each device sold.

Why not bring a tiny bit of France to your device by grabbing this for $ 1.99?