It looks as if one of the post-PC era's star devices gave a gift to the PC industry over the holidays: growth.
ONGOING CONTESTS Archon X Prize ($10 million for sequencing 100 genomes in ten days or less); Google Lunar X Prize ($20 million for landing a robot on the moon); Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize ($10 million for creating Star Trek device).
Jude Medical, St .Paul, Minnesota) is a nitinol, star-shaped device that was designed to facilitate placement of sutureless aorto-saphenous anastomoses during off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).
Her all-equipment, no-action stance mirrors that of a computer consultant who five years ago spent "considerably more than $1,000" for star-gazing devices for his weekend home in Dutchess County, N.Y., and who out of sheer embarrassment did not want his name used.
Both of these Bluetooth headphones are four-star quality devices that show just how far Bluetooth listening has come over the past three years.
It sounds like something out of Star Trek: a device that lets you point at something, press a button and discover exactly what you're looking at.
The so-called "Routley star", a semantical device introduced into non-classical logic by the Routleys (1972) (Valerie Plumwood, formerly Routley, and Richard Sylvan, née Routley), is a one-place function $\cdott )^*$ from information states into information states and may be used to invalidate the unrestricted and the negated ex falso principles.
The gift, which arrives the following morning, is a "Star Projector", a device for viewing images flashed across the sky.
The Scanadu Scout, a Star Trek-like device that within 10 seconds measures and records heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, temperature, heart electrical activity and other vital signs, has raised more than $1 million on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, far eclipsing its goal of $100,000.
Jake Parker's "Missile Mouse" is about a diminutive but courageous agent for the Galactic Security Agency, who must rescue a kidnapped scientist from the Rogue Imperium of Planets before they can obtain the secret of the Star Crusher doomsday device.
