Device in sentence

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It's essentially a general purpose computing device, and it just takes in everything and figures out what it's going to do with it, and that, I think, frees up Mother Nature to tinker around with different sorts of input channels.

We started building MIRA, A P.C. software platform that uses this Kinect device, a motion capture camera, to transform traditional exercises into video games.

So there's a main parachute and a reserve parachute, and if I do nothing, the reserve parachute is going to open because of an automatic opening device.

So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer mortification that one of these might ring at some inopportune moment.

And we've also shrunk it so that the core emotion engine works on any mobile device with a camera, like this iPad.

I think five years down the line, all our devices are going to have an emotion chip, and we won't remember what it was like when we couldn't just frown at our device and our device would say, "Hmm, you didn't like that, did you?"

Matt Kenyon: I'd just finished a project that dealt with the US Coalition side of the war and it was a black armband that was called the "Improvised Empathetic Device" which accumulated, in real time, the names, ranks, cause of death and location of US service members who had died overseas, and each time the Department of Defense or CENTCOM released their data, it would stab me in the arm.

Well, the answer is: through a three-headed device.

And to me, and probably a lot of you, a better life would mean being able to do more of what we think of as meaningful, whether that be spending more time with your family and friends, travel to an exotic place, or just getting money to buy that cool new device or a pair of new sneakers.

We named the project "Can You Hear Me?" (Laughter) The antennas created an open and free Wi-Fi communication network in which anyone who wanted to would be able to participate using any Wi-Fi-enabled device without any hindrance, and be able to send messages to those listening on the frequencies that were being intercepted.

What's really important here is that a solar cell has become a receiver for high-speed wireless signals encoded in light, while it maintains its primary function as an energy-harvesting device.

This is a great story-telling device that creates tremendous emotion within that text.

Each instruction in the mouse device driver is duly fetched and executed.

For example, an individual working for the government uses a wireless device to send a signal to another foreign leader's pacemaker.

This device directs the pacemaker to malfunction, ultimately resulting in the foreign leader's death.

The first of these numbers is associated with the discovery that was made a few kilometers from this hall, at CERN, home of this machine, the largest scientific device ever built by the human race, the Large Hadron Collider.

No matter how powerful, data is just a tool, and to keep that in mind, I find this device here quite useful.

Many of you will ... (Laughter) Before there was data, this was the decision-making device to use.

This device that I'm driving through the cave was actually creating a three-dimensional model as we drove it.

So I never got to be that astronaut that I always wanted to be, but this mapping device, designed by Dr. Bill Stone, will be.

So at Stanford, we created this haptic edge display, which is a mobile device with an array of linear actuators that can change shape, so you can feel in your hand where you are as you're reading a book.

And so we were able to do this by embedding 40 small, tiny linear actuators inside the device, and that allow you not only to touch them but also back-drive them as well.

So we've used pneumatic actuation to create a morphing device where you can go from something that looks a lot like a phone ... to a wristband on the go.

And so together with Ken Nakagaki at the Media Lab, we created this new high-resolution version that uses an array of servomotors to change from interactive wristband to a touch-input device to a phone.

And so as you bring a device over, it creates all the affordances you need and brings other objects to help you accomplish those goals.

He imagined taking a cat and placing it in a sealed box with a device that had a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour.

But to keep things consistent, the creators of Star Trek and other science-fiction worlds have introduced the concept of a universal translator, a portable device that can instantly translate between any languages.

To support this theory, Cartwright helped to perfect a medical device for measuring breathing called the spirometer to show the presumed deficiency in black people's lungs.

For data to remain once the device is turned off, it must be transferred into a long-term storage device, which comes in three major types.

The heat generated from a device and its environment will eventually demagnetize hard drives, degrade the dye in optical media, and cause charge leakage in floating gates.

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