Listening to 100 neurons firing is like listening to static, but a computer can pick up different patterns in the nerve impulses as a person thinks about moving in different ways.
But these spiders and fans can only be found by eye - there's no computer that can pick them out, and they change over time.
The company also saw a mid single-digit comp store sales decline in mobile computing due to a fall off notebook computer sales, in part reflecting a pick-up in tablet computer sales.
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But when her family's brewery, established in 1873, lacked a male heir, this graduate student in computer programming decided to pick up the family business.
That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.
"We pick the area code, the computer generates the seven digits, " he said.
Though these changes can go unnoticed by a person with a disease, relatives and friends more often pick up on it, but a computer algorithm that detects nuances of speech and subtle changes could detect abberations with much greater frequency.
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On April 17, it will introduce Microsoft's futuristic computer Surface at some of its stores to help consumers pick out the right mobile phone and accompanying applications.
Like I said, there are days in which -- my guess is it will happen again this week -- where you pick up that newspaper or you turn on your computer at 4:30 a.m. in the morning while your coffee is still brewing and you groan and, oh, God, what -- you know, great, this is going -- and then you get on your BlackBerry.
By simply visiting the Parents Portal on MEEPTablet.com from any device with a web browser (computer, smart phone, tablet), parents can not only hand-pick ("whitelist") which websites or keywords their kids have or don't have access to, but they can add words to the tablet's built-in "bad word" list so their child will not be able to search for those words or use them in the chat feature.
That is what happens when a computer gets too hot, or is bombarded with certain kinds of radiation: the electrons pick up enough energy to breach the dam that has been carefully constructed to contain them.
While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now.
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That means they can be played on any device, and can even pick up a song or movie on a smartphone from where you left off on a personal computer.
"Once bonuses pick up, it'll translate into salaries, " particularly in hot fields like engineering and computer science, he said.
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