Using your crafting ability will give you an opportunity to invest less money, but create a more meaningful gift.
Researchers from Dartmouth have come up with a new way to provide health monitors just such an ability using a tiny electric current and a bioimpedance sensor.
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The sophisticated analysis comes into play when the pillow compares the previous night's movements to your regular sleep patterns (using its impressive ability to identify the bigger of two numbers), and if you had a more restless night than usual, it helpfully suggests that you try to squeeze in a nap or two during the day.
The thing you have to remember is that the prior art that belonged to Samsung, or belonged to somebody else that they had the ability of using, they had not used for quite some time.
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University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
It has also added the ability to type using speech recognition without needing to be connected to the net.
When using GLONASS satellites, the time it takes for the receiver to "lock on" to a position is (on average) approximately 20 percent faster than using GPS. And when using both GPS and GLONASS, the receiver has the ability to lock on to 24 more satellites than using GPS alone.
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Deflation robs a central bank of its ability to stimulate spending using negative real interest rates.
BET, using its powerful brand and its ability to cross-promote, is already planning one.
In many cases they are using the technology to accelerate their ability to get to cloud-based infrastructure.
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The country has since adopted e-voting, an e-health system and introduced the ability to sign documents using an electronic signature.
The navigation system further affords the ability to input destinations using fingertip handwriting recognition via a laptop computer-like touchpad on the center console.
Their job was to pick the top 20 ideas using four criteria: vision, ability to implement, potential for impact, and potential for replicability.
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Of course, users who have native Internet connectivity using IPv6 will still need the ability to access resources that today only support IPv4.
Scientists like Atala say regenerative medicine represents a new frontier in medicine that could see doctors curing, rather than merely treating, diseases using the body's natural ability to heal itself.
It is the first to bring PC users the ability to play games using the remote control's 'motion drive' feature, which controls on-screen objects according to the movement of the remote.
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With a planned rotation of the six crew members aboard the space station scheduled to begin next month, a delay in using the Soyuz could prevent the ability to bring replacements, Suffredini said.
For instance, although Intel's practice of providing rebates to retailers who sell PCs with Intel chips inside, could be interpreted as an innocent discount, Balto says he expects to see courts scrutinize the policies to assess whether Intel deliberately took measures to hamper AMD's ability to get PCs using its chips displayed and sold by retailers.
You also have the ability to bounce on pads using the rear touch-pad, take photos of the environment and walking around walls using conveniently positioned paper-glue.
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The smartphone, launched earlier this year, allows users to control its screen using only their eyes and has the ability to take two different pictures at once.
Yesterday, DARPA announced that an LS3 protoype has successfully completed several exercises, including the ability to follow a person using its sensors over rugged terrain outside.
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Other slick features include the ability to send an address to the device from a home PC using the "Send2Dash" feature and, of interest to a more technically adept crowd, the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of locations.
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One major component of data science is the ability to extract insight from data using tools from math, statistics and computer science.
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a "natural" level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available.
The same automation and control that gives organizations the ability to scale up or down using multiple servers when demand increases also allows them to migrate entire server deployments to a new infrastructure when disaster strikes.
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Using 2G, Citi intends to give cardholders the ability to pay with rewards points at the register.
Your success using social media has a direct correlation to your ability to manage the smallest of tiniest of nuanced details.
"Using ultra-short light pulses gives us the ability to focus in a well confined region and the ability for intense radiation, " said Parigger.
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Worse, in the networked economy that we live in, a substantial part of a product's value derives from compatibility--the ability to seamlessly exchange data with others using the same system.
It also noted that calls made between two devices using its software would be encrypted - limiting the ability of anyone to make sense of the data even if they could listen in.
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