Optical mice replace the rubber roller ball with light sensors that bounce off any surface and pinpoint the position of the mouse.
With the Nazi naval communications rendered transparent, the British could pinpoint the position of the U-boats, steering convoys safely around them and, taking the offensive, sending destroyers to sink them.
One helpful factor has been American legislation that requires operators to be able to pinpoint the position of any mobile phone from which an emergency call is made, prompting operators to add positioning technology to their networks and handsets.
Skyhook Wireless, which provides location services to pinpoint the position of cellphone users, filed a suit late last year accusing Google of getting manufacturers like Motorola to break contracts with Skyhook and use Google location services on Android phones instead.
Increasingly ubiquitous wireless technologies require novel localization techniques to pinpoint the position of an uncooperative node, whether the target is a malicious device engaging in a security exploit or a low-battery handset in the middle of a critical emergency.
All three used a technique known as x-ray crystallography to pinpoint the position of thousands of atoms in the cellular machine known as the ribosome, and all will share one-third of the $1.4 million prize.
To pinpoint the position of AR149 action in a signalling pathway, COS7 cells were co-transfected with HA-ARF6 and either AR149, EFA6 or both.
Individual sequence reads are masked to remove non-genomic sequence, aligned to the host genome and assembled into contiguous fragments used to pinpoint the position of integration.
To improve imaging signal contrast and spatial resolution, various optical probes have been developed in the past decades, which can pinpoint the position of prescribed biomolecule targets.
A previous effort to visualize by cryoEM the location of Hsc70 did not use specifically bound auxilin to recruit Hsc70 and could not achieve sufficient resolution to pinpoint the position of Hsc70 (Heymann et al, 2005).
