Taking things a step further, a new V-shaped model can output the same 420mph blower speed in a package that's roughly sixty-percent smaller.
So second, that means that it can be shaped to, well, pretty much anything engineers and designers can imagine.
The device, which is about the size of an Apple iPod Nano or a square-shaped matchbox, can be attached to a strap and worn on the wrist or the upper arm.
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The right piece can rejuvenate a stale pursuit or, in the best cases, it can elevate our own game like the way a lighter bike frame can get us up the mountain or a better-shaped pair of skis can get us down it.
We'd forgotten all about it, but remember that contest where Coca-Cola is putting special GPS-enabled Coke can-shaped phones?
It's a tin-can-shaped explosive covered with a lid of copper that turns into molten rock and pierces through armored vehicles.
And that helped, initially, until the insurgence started using more explosives, they started using shaped charges, which can penetrate just about anything.
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This owes to more than just income levels and age distributions--it also can be shaped by how many specialists operate in your hometown.
The future can be shaped by intelligent actions, but those must be based on clear recognition of the reasons why each side fears the future intentions of the other.
The stock is in its seventh week of a price consolidation, and appears that it may be forming a cup-shaped base, which can be a precursor of price strength ahead.
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The small, pebble-shaped gadget, which can be hung on a keychain or clipped to a belt or purse strap, vibrates, lights up, then sounds an alarm when users step more than 30 feet from their phones.
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"From transport systems to energy use and health, this demonstrator will play a key part in the government's industrial strategy and give real insight into how our cities can be shaped in the future, " he added.
They are shaped like a soft drink can and are packed with high explosives.
In an entertainment industry increasingly shaped by digital technology, can even such an influential figure as Mr Spielberg really defy digital?
Spaces and fluxes overlap and intertwine in our interaction with the city, which can only be shaped through a distributed, bottom-up process.
V3Solar proved that point when it unveiled its new spinning, cone-shaped solar panels, which can generate 20 times as much energy as flat panels.
With a 225hp Continental aircraft engine, 21-foot wingspan and an airplane-shaped body, the Flarecraft can travel 350 miles in three and a half hours on 47 gallons of fuel.
Some are split in half to make it easier to reach the keys, others place the keys on shaped panels so your fingers can touch them more readily, and others simply re-arrange the letters.
That is the responsibility of the Afghan government, which must step up its ability to protect its people, and move from an economy shaped by war to one that can sustain a lasting peace.
Zinc fingers, so named because they contain a zinc atom and are shaped like an index finger, can turn specific genes off or on or to some point in between, delete genes altogether or add new genetic material.
The team's invisibility cloak exploits this effect, and relies on a specific geometry comprising two prism-shaped calcite crystals glued together, such that they leave a wedge-shaped gap beneath in which objects can be "cloaked" when illuminated with polarised light.
Alternatively, anywhere in the OS you can perform a V-shaped gesture on the LCD display to bring up a replica of the current screen (even the home screen, if you wanted) in E Ink.
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While aeronautic design has come far since the advent of the passenger jet plane, making them lighter and more efficient, many designers feel that we've gone about as far as we can go with cigar-shaped fuselages and under-wing engines.
He will be relieved too that the economic debate over the next few days will be shaped not by questions about how the government can stimulate growth, but memories of the arguments the last government had over how to respond to the banking crisis, the need for spending cuts and tax rises.
More chronic sufferers of lost love could opt for the Global Vipassana Pagoda, a massive dome-shaped meditation hall on the outskirts of Mumbai that can house more than 8, 000 people.
You begin to see how the landscape and the communities are shaped by the events around them and how stories can be told, and documents created, in new and exciting ways.
That bit of trickery works because the light can be manipulated when the material is shaped with features about as big as the light's wavelength - less than a millionth of a metre for light that we can see.
Now in their 70s and 80s, they can look back on a time and experience which shaped their lives.
By altering the design of the fuselage and wings of an aircraft, one can alter how the sonic boom is created and shaped.
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My friend, who is also our band's graphic artist, was beaten on Haft-e-Tir Square with electric batons, which have left circle shaped burns on his arm and his body, and he can't work for a while.
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