It also helps Intel push its chips into smaller, battery powered devices and embedded systems, as Intel begins challenging companies manufacturing chips based on power-efficient ARM designs.
The spring is wound for half a minute, and then unwinds over six minutes, charging a battery in the process, and providing enough energy to run the radio for an hour. (This means the radio's spring-controller circuit is no longer necessary.) Thus, Freeplay has switched from making solely spring-powered devices to making battery-powered devices that are equipped with a clockwork mechanism for recharging and emergency use.
Be careful when using Bluetooth in battery-powered devices though, leaving it switched on draws additional power from the battery.
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It adds that the software will be tailored towards battery-powered devices (think tablet computers).
Electronic cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge, creating vapor that users inhale.
The battery-powered devices, about the size of a videocassette, use Global Positioning System technology to report where a trailer is (Orbital Sciences also owns Magellan, the largest producer of GPS receivers).
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are small battery-powered devices that can deliver a small electric shock to the heart in response to a life-threatening arrhythmia (when the heart starts beating rapidly and inefficiently).
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At the CES conference in early January 2013 Seagate and Kingston demonstrated their WiFi, battery powered portable storage devices (personal cloud devices).
Since the 2011 CES Kingston and Seagate have announced battery powered external storage devices accessible through WiFi, targeted initially for the iPad and soon available for Android tablets as well.
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That makes nine Apple devices for two people, with each device powered on and burning its battery simultaneously.
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