Sentences with phrase «useful devices for»

That said, debates, whether live or on paper, can be useful devices for identifying the issues.

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He begins practicing his English — a useful device for allowing the film to drop its subtitles — and picks up wire walking tips from circus performer Papa Rudy; a wonderfully restrained performance by Ben Kingsley.

It's a useful device for examining some situations.

But realistically, it's not going to be a useful device for most schools out of the box.

We also now know the Fitbit Ionic is set to be a useful device for those with diabetes.

It's quite obvious that the foldable phones may never replace the smartphones, but it could be a useful device for those users who are looking for a device that looks more or less a smartphone but has PC capabilities.

This is a useful device for those who wish to keep a large amount of bitcoins, but do not wish to have third - party storage, or keep it on a desktop / mobile device.

Adding a pelmet to a window is a useful device for creating an illusion of height or changing the proportions of a window.

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But as useful as they are, mobile devices probably can't take the place of computers for everything, all of the time.

I checked my cell phone carrier's website, and found that by the end of my planned travel for this winter and spring, the Solis would be less expensive than any useful international roaming plan I could sign up for — that includes the cost of the device and day passes, though factors in my travel companions who can also avoid the pricey roaming plans.

If researchers can show that wearable data is medically useful, it will make buying these devices more compelling for consumers as well as health organizations that are considering providing them to their patients.

Lastly, the Paperwhite also has the fastest and most responsive typing input of the three devices, a useful feature when looking for new books.

You can also stream on up to 5 devices simultaneously, which is useful for families with lots of people watching on their own devices.

Gladwell uses this device to discuss optimal classroom size and family wealth, but it is also a useful conceptual tool for scaling companies.

It's a simple platformer that can be played for a few minutes at a time, yet its level creator also utilizes the device's various touch inputs in useful ways, which is more than can be said for a lot of Vita games.

This, of course, can be useful for entrepreneurs who require large amounts of media on their mobile devices — either for work or pleasure.

For millions of people with chronic illnesses, whether it's diabetes, heart disease or sleep apnea, these devices become dramatically more useful if they can collect and interpret medical information.

The extra data allocation will be very useful for subscribers who want to tether their laptop or other devices to go online.

Davidson suggested that there is an even more disturbing aspect to the enterprises: «For those who may wish to establish a financial and political as well as religious base across the nation, this kind of thing is a useful but subtle and insidious device.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

The English language contains this device, it's quite useful for separating out ideas in a visually pleasing manner.

’15 This decision is not a declaration that the programme is true; it is a methodological device, a useful strategy for systematically developing the «positive heuristic» without too many distractions.

This is also useful for quickly connecting friend's devices without having to pair over Bluetooth.

Whether it's farmers or fishers suddenly being able to call around and shop around for the best prices for their crop or catch, or the ability of a rural laborer to avoid walking miles in (often fruitless) searches for available jobs, or the possibility, in some countries, to actually use phones as mobile bank accounts, the devices have proved useful in an astonishing number of ways.

Although credit default swaps have been highly criticized for their role in the recent financial crisis, most observers conclude that using credit default swaps as a hedging device has a useful purpose.

This shows whether you can control the audio volume directly through the headphones with an inline remote, which is useful for wireless headphones when your connected device might not always be within easy reach.

He saw the need for a reconnaissance device that would be useful in environments like the damaged buildings of Port - au - Prince.

Other researchers have tried changing cell behavior by creating protein switches from scratch, but Lim's approach — mixing and matching naturally existing proteins — may be more versatile and practical: «It can be useful as a biotechnology device or for repairing cells in humans.

Super-strong graphene oxide (GO) sheets are useful for ultrathin, flexible nano - electronic devices, and display unique properties including photoluminescence and room temperature ferromagnetism.

Instead, skyrmions might be useful in devices meant for performing calculations.

The effect could help scientists to better understand materials that may be useful for building spintronic devices, he says.

This makes them highly promising for solar technology, and also potentially useful in devices like electronic sensors and flash memory drives.

One is a metamaterial that absorbs 99.75 percent of infrared light — very useful for thermal imaging devices.

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

The idea could be useful for shunting drops around microfluidic devices, giving greater control over chemical reactions.

Future developments based on these results could lead to extremely miniaturized optical circuits and devices that could be useful for sensing and computing, among other applications.

Chemist John Pojman of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge adds that such roving droplets «might be useful as a pumping mechanism for microfluidics, converting chemical energy to mechanical motion in small devices,» such as the microfluidic labs - on - a-chip many researchers are developing as diagnostic machines.

The fact that the device uses current technologies such as techniques for silicon - chip manufacturing means there are no known roadblocks to scaling up to create a useful quantum computer.

Cola believes the rectennas could be useful for powering internet of things devices, especially if they can be used to produce electricity from scavenged thermal energy.

Molecules are delivered from the AFM tip to a solid substrate of interest via capillary transport, making DPN a potentially useful tool for creating and functionalizing nanoscale devices.

For example, building a useful invisibility cloak — the kind that could hide a person or a military tank — requires crafting many little devices that pick up a ray of light on the far side of an object, away from the observer, and then relay that ray, row by row, around the object.

Deutsch, a University of Oxford physicist who drew up the first blueprint for a quantum computer in 1985, thought we were still 20 years away from a useful device — until last summer.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As it thins to the atomic limit, it becomes fluorescent, making it useful for optoelectronics, such as light - emitting diodes, or light - absorbing devices, such as solar cells.

Moreover, his system not only serves as a protection against data theft, it is also useful for business clients with issues related to the trend to «bring your own device»: It is becoming increasingly common that employees use their personal devices for official duties.

That, however, is just «one piece of the puzzle,» Chen says: In order to be useful for thermoelectric devices, a material must combine low thermal conductivity with high electrical conductivity.

Fischer is developing new techniques for making graphene nanostructures that display unusual quantum properties that could make them useful in nano - scale electronic devices.

Explaining this chemical quirk could help scientists better understand the operations of molecular machines, which may be useful for transporting information in electronic devices or delivering drugs to specific cells (SN: 10/29/16, p. 6).

Led by Dr Yang Hyunsoo, the team developed a new device structure useful for the next generation MRAM chip which can potentially be applied to enhance the user experience in consumer electronics, including personal computers and mobile devices such as laptops and mobile phones.