At a thickness of as little as half a millimeter, a production LCD could easily be thin enough for a mobile device, too.
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Lenovo positions these as "slim power" machines, and they're 25 percent thinner than standard laptops with a thickness of about 1 inch (26mm).
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The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.
The 39mm watch has a thickness of 9.2 mm.
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Created through exhaustive processes testing countless samples and configurations, the AR1 and AR2 loudspeakers feature a final front cabinet baffle laminated to a thickness of 50 mm and 40 mm respectively from hand-selected maple cultivated from Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, whose cold climate produces maple of a tight grain, contributing markedly to the R's beautiful sound.
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The real advantage is that the lack of resistance means that a given thickness of superconducting cable can carry between two and ten times as much power as the same thickness of copper.
Threaded on a wire one-fifth the thickness of a human hair, these tiny seeds of light can be injected to activate special networks of light-sensitive neurons.
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The topographic map reveals that the ice cap is about 1, 200 kilometres across, with a maximum thickness of three kilometres.
Standing silently but amiably to one side, he would unbolt the magic boxes, hold the ropes, demonstrate the emptiness of beakers and pots, confirm the thickness of a sheet of glass before a near-naked girl would climb into a magic box and pass straight through it!
The drillings have revealed a typical ice thickness of between 1.5-2m which is far thinner than a previous generation of explorers encountered.
Magnetic, nonradioactive nanoparticles (a tiny fraction of the thickness of a human hair and invisible to the human eye) are injected into the subject, where they bind only to known breast cancer cells within the body.
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Although the third-generation iPad surprised many by gaining about half a millimeter of thickness, it looks like Apple could be back to trimming product dimensions by using a new kind of display technology in the next iPhone.
The case snaps on to provide protection from scratches, dust and boringness, while adding only about a millimeter of thickness.
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That said, my last phone was a Thunderbolt with an extended battery, so it's safe to say that I won't mind a bit of thickness.
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When the explorer drills the ice to make a physical measurement of thickness, he will use the hole to lower a 4kg conductivity-temperature device (CTD) into the ocean below.
Every hamburger comes out of a stamping machine weighing exactly 45 grams, with its thickness measured to the thousandth of a centimeter.
This is equivalent to the apparent thickness of a human hair seen from two kilometres away.
Net pay refers to the thickness of a reservoir capable of producing commercially viable oil and gas.
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Often the strength, density or thickness of a structure is dictated by the largest forces it has to withstand.
"You're asking it to work on something one one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair, " says Chief Executive Kirlin.
By flying transects over the ice, a picture of its thickness emerges.
The total thickness of a completely plastic solar cell is in the range of one micrometer, which is 100 times thinner than a human hair.
Just 12.2mm slim (measurement excludes lens cover), which is smaller than the thickness of a standard AA-size battery, the Cyber-shot TX55 is the world's thinnest camera in its class (among cameras with an optical anti-shake function).
As you see in our photo gallery, the tablet is roughly the same size and thickness of a netbook when combined with the keyboard dock, and we never felt like the slate was about to tumble out of its cradle.
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In addition to mastery of traditional calligraphy, the art of engraving requires a high degree of virtuosity, since the artist works on a tiny surface area where every curve, every thickness of line counts.
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a scan that measures the thickness of the lining at the back of the eye - the retina.
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As a result, the makers have developed a generation of cells whose silicon layers are only a micron or two deep, as opposed to the usual thickness of 200-300 microns.
According to Vizio reps, the engineers were concerned that a backlit keyboard would increase the thickness of the laptop, and most backlit keyboard suffer from unsightly light bleed anyway.
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