It is Sandia's task to engineer a storage device that solves the heat problem.
James Braithwaite, Euro-Pro vice president of research and development, says Shark had to "over-engineer" the device's head, which holds the floor cleaning pads, so it would stand up to consumer pressure.
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The Bluetooth-enabled device could have kept the Apple engineer from losing his iPhone in a bar a few weeks ago, obviating a legal tussle between Apple and the tech blog Gizmodo, which published unauthorized photos of the phone.
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Symmetrix's roots go back to 1987, when Richard Egan hired a brilliant Israeli engineer, Moshe Yanai, to develop the device.
Sapper Clive Smith, 26, from Hednesford, Staffordshire, was injured when he stood on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) while on duty with the 33 Engineer Regiment in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand in 2010.
"The message did not arrive at the device meant to deploy the chute, " said Gentry Lee, chief engineer of planetary systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"Being part of the first DisplayPort 1.2 Source device certification is a significant milestone for us, " said Mike Engbretson, chief technology engineer of Granite River Labs.
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PUFs are an innovative way of safeguarding individual chips from data theft by using the unique 'fingerprint' inherent in every semiconductor device to protect its encryption key, making it very hard to clone and thus reverse-engineer and compromise security microcontrollers.
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He's as rigorous as any formal engineer in that he draws up designs for each work but, he said, the finished device can look very different to the initial conception.
Enlisting the help of an engineer, Whelan has spent the past 18 months perfecting the machine and has created a highly adaptable device which snaps on around the wheel of the bicycle.
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