The Taser's inventor struggled for decades to discover a market for his device, finding law enforcement agencies more troubled at the prospect of citizens armed with Tasers that could incapacitate officers than they were interested in adding a less lethal device to their arsenals.
Sure, there's no shortage of iPad cases and stands, even things that do both, but what I've found is that because the iPad itself is such an anonymous-looking device, finding the perfect case for it is the best way to personalize the thing.
For long-term location-tracking studies using similar devices, findings indicate that only smartphone-based tracking is up to the challenge.
TIP OF THE WEEK Even with the ability to organize apps into folders on the Home screen of Apple's mobile devices, finding one particular program among the dozens on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch can take longer that it should.
That strategy often resulted in the devices finding their way into stars' personal lives as well.
However, given the increased number of wireless devices, finding free channels is not always feasible.
A recent piece of notable research for example compared data consumption from different smartphone and tablet devices — finding that the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III used the most data of all, including media-friendly tablets (although considering that many use tablets on WiFi rather than cellular networks, this may not be as big a surprise as you might think).
Zhang used a very complicated form of a simple device for finding primes called a sieve, invented by a Greek named Eratosthenes, a contemporary of Archimedes.
After all, employment and support allowance was supposed to be a way of helping people into work, not a device for finding excuses to cut benefits.
"We hope to determine whether or not this is an effective screening device in finding early-stage cancers, and whether or not there are effective interventions at an early stage," she said.
