Sentence examples for earlier devices from inspiring English sources

Earlier devices were much larger and intended as a bridge to heart transplants.

Earlier devices offered limited benefit because many recipients could not understand spoken words without visual hints like lip reading.

That's a far cry from the professional men who were the biggest customers of earlier devices like the Palm Pilot and the Treo.

Those devices in turn may have been cleared because they were "substantially equivalent" to earlier devices that may no longer be in use.

The Lotus valve, designed to improve upon earlier devices, is fully repositionable and retrievable, with a unique seal to minimize paravalvular regurgitation (PVR).

Chen was able to control the positive and negative charges in a nanotube to make it emit light 100 times brighter than the light from earlier devices.

Such debris generation is also believed to be a cause of earlier device failure.

BlackBerry has also improved the 3.5mm stereo headset jack, which was also a problem on the earlier device.

Others suggested that this particular piece of the Mechanism could have been recycled, and that the "ME" was left over from some earlier device.

The earlier device, in use in about 250,000 Americans, is coated with sirolimus, which like taxol prevents cell growth in the inner layer of the artery wall.

For this earlier device, Columbia University was named a Medical Devices runner-up in The Wall Street Journal's prestigious Technology Innovation Awards in 2011.