Sentence examples for is devices from inspiring English sources
noun
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener.
Beyond the lecture titled "MacGyver Windmills" (that is, devices fabricated from junk), a $15 day pass gets you admission to 200 other workshops.
The "internet of things" – that is, devices with inbuilt communications capability – is already here, says Paul Green, director of innovation at Arkessa, based in Bishops Stortford, which specialises in setting up machine-to-machine systems.
That is, devices like the iPod let you carry most of your music in your pocket (and Apple's new iCloud will increase consumer access to the rest of the collection).
Andrew Harrison, UK chief executive of the Carphone Warehouse, Europe's largest independent mobile phone retailer, commented: "To me, the really interesting thing is what we are seeing is devices designed with how the consumer uses the internet very much in mind, rather than just a computer that was made for business use trying to fit the consumer".
The end result is devices composed of little more than glass tubes and liquid that perform as microprocessors.
The other option for Prof Sharkey is devices which can be controlled by thought, but which are not part of the human body.
One is device-based and the other system-based.
They are devices for coping.
All are devices of perpetually suspended communication.
Actual robots are devices of extremely narrow value and capability.
The multihulled snag boats were devices of his invention.
