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Amazon's Kindle started out in 2007 as an expensive and rather rough device that garnered little in the way of praise.
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Woodworth designed the first questionnaire to detect and measure abnormal behaviour; it served as a rough screening device for behavioral disorders.
This rough-looking device had been carefully conceived: the net was made of extra-fine mesh, which would do less damage to the animals; the board was marine plywood, which would keep the net vertical in the water; and the Coke bottles were exactly the right size to trap the paralarvae.
I can be pretty rough on devices and I've already nicked up my iPhone 5. Rugged is good in my opinion.
We investigated two different approaches to realize the electrical contacts in order to enable electrical measurement on a rough silicon nanowire device: we compared FIB-assisted platinum deposition for the fabrication of electrical contact with EBL technique.
Folks looking to get their hands on one of the 128GB models had it especially rough — the $999 device sold out in Microsoft's online store and some of the company's retail outlets, not to mention some Best Buy and Staples locations.
There is still a market for dedicated PDAs and the Nautiz X3 is aimed at those that are a bit rough with their devices.
The spray-on c-TiO2 thin films were rough and demonstrated low device performance, when used for device fabrication, and therefore were discarded.
The report that sparked it all focused on a database file stored on iOS devices that stores a record of the rough location of the device over long periods of time — and is unencrypted.
As the economist Michael Spence hypothesised in the 1970s, an arts degree can be a rough and ready signalling device, which lubricates the labour market in a way that assists efficiency.
But a promising tool for epidemiologists lies unused: mobile-phone data.When people make mobile-phone calls, the network generates a call data record (CDR) containing such information as the phone numbers of the caller and receiver, the time of the call and the tower that handled it which gives a rough indication of the device's location.
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