A device developed for naval applications may have commercial potential.
Babbage participated in a test of Beam, a device developed by Suitable Technologies.
A new portable device developed by the inventor Ray Kurzweil, however, eliminates the need to be near a computer.
This device, developed in 1962, consists of either an aluminum or a plastic platen coated with a metallic material.
Mr. Edwards says he has gotten relief from a device developed by an Australian audiologist, which became widely available in the United States last year.
It is an improvement on an electronic device developed by Dr. Vannevar Bush, who headed up all government scientific research during the war.
Using a device developed in the 20s, the Dobson Ozone Spectrophotometer, the three analysed amounts of ozone in the atmosphere over the Antarctic.
The device, developed by a Lawrence Livermore Laboratory consultant, Bill Wattenburg, is a metal bar, installed on a truck's bumper, that is attached to the air-brake system.
The device, developed by Mr. Lynch and manufactured by Mr. Janczak's company, the Enecon Corporation, is a magnetic filter that fits over a wine bottle.
However, the two researchers hope to change that for their next robot by incorporating a Kinect, a motion-tracking device developed by Microsoft for use in video gaming.
One basic type is the optical range finder modeled after a ranging device developed by the Scottish firm of Barr and Stroud in the 1880s.
