Sentence examples for device akin to a from inspiring English sources

It's simple: with a battery-operated, point-of-sale device akin to a credit-card terminal, money is transferred from one person's card to another; during the process, the cards download and record each other's transaction records.

The magnet is a one sided device akin to a large NMR-MOUSE with the additional design specification of planes of constant field strength ∣B0∣ parallel to the surface.

Its trick, according to the Information, was to show investors a demonstration using its cartful o' hardware, then quickly show a mock up device, akin to a pair of sunglasses connected to a small, portable box by a cable.

It delivers naloxone in a device akin to an EpiPen.

Later this year Tom Lix, the founder of Cleveland Whiskey, will introduce a whiskey made in a device akin to an oversize pressure cooker.

Another problem is psychological: Patients and medical professionals have a tendency to see patches as benign devices akin to a bandage.

She introduces the topic using a turn-initial referent followed by a (non-verbal) comment, a device akin to topic-comment structure and noted in the turns of other agrammatic speakers (Beeke et al., 2003a, 2007a).

The top model's panoply of nifty features a faster processor, a dedicated chip to handle data acquired by built-in movement sensors, making it into a self-tracking device akin to FitBit or Nike's FuelBand, and a better camera with image stabilisation and two different-coloured flashes may struggle to endear it to increasingly cost-conscious Westerners.

Or take U2, trapped as if in a metaphor in a giant, mechanical lemon during their 1992 PopMart tour; or Google Glass, the spectacles-type device akin to the sort of things sold in the back pages of 1950s American magazines; or dating apps such as On the Rebound, which alerts you if any of your Facebook friends are breaking up.

Flanking the display will be two detachable controller sections, giving you hardware controls when you need them, but a device more akin to a smartphone when you don't.

And there are, so far as I know, no devices (akin to glasses or hearing aids) to help me.