If the disease does get there, it will strike poor people hardest, he predicted, because many of them lack screens and air-conditioning.
This week, the American Foundation for the Blind filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission against Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sanyo and Sprint, asserting among other things that their phones lacked screens that could be read easily by people with vision loss.
And internet-connected devices that may dominate the next era in tech — smartwatches, home-assistant devices like Amazon's Echo, or virtual reality machines like Oculus Rift — are likely to be free of the web, and may even lack screens.
Connectivity getting embedded into more and more types of devices, including things that lack screens like (many) smart speakers, also means voice interfaces are naturally getting more uplift.
Efforts must be made to provide HPV vaccination in low-resource countries that lack screening programs.
Overweight layabouts, lacking touch-screen iPods and headphones, jockey for airtime with their deafening transistor radios.
Uracil prototrophic transformants were picked from SD plate lacking uracil, screened by PCR amplification, and finally verified by Northern blot and real-time PCR analyses.
Furthermore, dwellings in these areas often lacked window screens and doors.
(The Visor Prism and Clie lack screen protection altogether; they come with leather wraparound cases instead, which dampen the instant-access, shirt-pocket joy of Palm ownership).
Red-eyed mutants of Rhodnius prolixus lack screening pigments in their compound eyes and ocelli and are exposed to more oxidative stress.
