They have become indispensable devices for millions of Americans and have spawned the "app economy" — there are over eighty-five thousand applications for these devices today.
For solid-state quantum information processing, microcavities and nanocavities containing semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been demonstrated to be effective as indispensable devices such as efficient [3 5] and indistinguishable single-photon sources (SPSs) [6, 7] and coherent quantum-control devices [8, 9].
For Nokia, the cellphone's growing role as the indispensable device in a wireless, Web-connected world ought to be a boon.
When I read the recent news that Google has unveiled a voice-activated "Conversation Mode" for its Translate app (for Android), I immediately thought of Star Trek's "universal translator" — that uniquely improbable and indispensable device that allows creatures from different planets and galaxies to communicate.
The mobile phone has become an indispensable device in everyday life.
Polarizer is an indispensable device in a wide range of optical systems, including flat panel displays, microdisplays, and optical networking.
It is an indispensable device to study the protective efficacy of vaccine candidates against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
According to Line, Idezawa's accomplishments during his 12 months as COO include Line's new "LIFE platform strategy," which wants to turn the app into "an integral part of everyday life in an era where smartphones have evolved into an indispensable device for people all over the world".
I'm a voracious Apple Watch user, and, after over a year of allowing it to rub up against the real world with all of its indignities, I think that a healthy dose of simplification and physicality could help it move from something for gadget lovers and fiddlers to a truly indispensable device that acts as an interface between the physical and digital worlds.
They are indispensable calculating devices and approximations that enable the economist to make predictions about markets, industries and economies the way they enable physicists to predict eclipses and tides, or prevent bridge collapses and power failures.
Water and food were needed, of course, but many people seemed to spend more time on other, more modern quests: for working outlets to charge all those increasingly indispensable mobile devices, for enough bars on cellphones to make calls, for working Wi-Fi to download e-mail.
