Intel's new solid state hard drive is so fast that it can actually be used as RAM.
The exercisers, geared to all levels of expertise, can be tucked into a suitcase; the yoga bag can actually be used as a suitcase.
Thomas Bernstrand of Sweden is responsible for the "Sugar Ray," a glowing silicone lamp shaped like a punching bag, which can actually be used as one.
Testing one's theories by seeing whether they can actually be used to solve real-world problems is the best way forward towards broader relevance for one's own work.
In this paper, we describe how the principles of total quality management can actually be used to design and operate processes to assure supply chain security.
This paper describes how to create a mold with conformal bubbler cooling tunnels through a metal deposition process that can actually be used in plastic injection industries.
Nearly everyone believes, incorrectly, that past statistical trends can actually be used to predict future values – of stocks, of poker hands, of global temperatures.
"The ripe fruit is an attractive vivid green colour – different from the darker coloured, smaller variety – and its thick skin can actually be used as a serving bowl for guacamole".
In some systems, the syngas and oil can actually be used as a fuel to run the pyrolysis reaction, meaning it requires no external energy source beyond the organic waste itself.
We can go one step further and argue that, until the ethical discussion is solved, the resemblance argument can actually be used to promote the use of nonhuman primates in disciplines where it hasn't had much impact yet.
The new study builds on this research, showing that the previous case was not an isolated incident, and that brain imaging can actually be used to communicate with unresponsive patients.
