Whereas the original iPod used a relatively bulky, power-hungry hard-disk drive to store music, the iPod nano instead relies on small, silent and sturdy "flash" memory chips, which retain data even when the power is switched off.
Even if your phone is on silent, it may flash when events occur.
Stephon Marbury was dressed in a brown suit for tonight's game against the Indiana Pacers, his diamond earrings flashing silent distress signals for the Nets.. Scott decided that Marbury would not play for the first time this season, and Marbury reluctantly agreed.
"It was completely silent, with these flicking and flashing lights and twinkling music as we paraded up this scarlet promenade," she recalls.
I stayed silent and waited for the flash.
The horn will be silent, the headlights will not flash.
The neighborhood that had been roiled by violence for two nights was eerily quiet as scores of state police cars with lights flashing, but sirens silent, slowly snaked through the streets.
The screen flashes "Democrats were silent," and then moves to shots of Dr. Dean speaking with prospective voters in a living room, standing alone in the woods and shaking hands with former President Jimmy Carter as the screen flashes, "opposed the Iraq war," "opposed Bush economic plan," "courageous".
The face of her character, Kay Arnold, is like a mask from the silent era, with darkened lips and flashing, hard-lined eyes that were meant to compensate for the lack of speech.
