Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
The process of 3-D printing uses computer-created digital models to create real-world objects -- everything from simple toys or jewelry to more complex objects with moving parts.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
And gadgets such as a bathroom scale made by Withings, a French company, can transmit a person's weight to a digital health-log on a computer or smartphone.
As a test, I downloaded files from HDtracks.com, an online retailer specializing in hi-res audio, plugged a device known as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into my computer and listened over earphones.
This digital wave started with a trickle called TiVo, one of the first computer-hard-drive-based digital video recorders (DVRs).
The process turns digital models on computer screens into three-dimensional solid objects using plastics and other materials.
Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Gullotti, a compact, earthy Bostonian, arrived in 1994 after having run Digital Equipment's 40, 000-strong computer services division.
Such growth has been fuelled by the expansion of digital-media work, like the design of computer games, in which Britain is a world leader.
More than ever, it seems, the digital artists who produce today's computer-generated blockbusters are bent on recreating a vision of reality that is likewise more vital and compelling than everyday life.
Rather than dismiss my proposal, Al gave me the full measure of his time and insight even though a new generation of ground-based full-motion simulators based upon advanced digital computer technology was emerging, which FlightSafety would later incorporate.
Like the first-ever sales brochure for an electronic digital computer, put out in 1947.
Thus the cataract operations that will allow the recipients to return to work, and the digital education that will create a generation of computer-savvy Mexican youth.
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Likewise Digital Equipment focused on its profit margin in computer-aided design and manufacturing software only to be destroyed by its lower margin but higher volume competitor AutoCad.
The inaugural special exhibition of Museum of the Moving Image, Real Virtuality, presents five experiments in art and technology that either draw visitors into immersive computer-generated environments or project digital environments into the physical space of the gallery.
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He said two main limitations have held SDR back: the speed at which analogue-to-digital converters turn radio waves into numbers, and computer power.
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Nowadays, hybrid movies that merge live action with computer animation to produce three-dimensional digital maps of their real-life actors' body movements include lots of fine-grained information about expression.
Digital objects including e-books, audio, video, computer applications, etc.
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Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
The former, a computer-animated triumph from Pixar, was digital at birth, so next to nothing has been lost in the transfer.
Its database holds all manner of demographic information, computer-scanned fingerprints for every voter, and digital photographs.
Google engineers describe automating driving as just another information problem: With enough sensors and detailed digital maps of roads, algorithms should be able to make computer-driven cars safer than human-driven cars.
Virtually anyone who uses sketching to capture their creative ideas and wants to have their drawings in a digital format to e-mail, archive or further refine on their computer can benefit from Inkling.
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Engineers rely on computer-aided design, intricate planning and layers of digital controls to make everything work.
In 1983 he quit selling minicomputers for Digital Equipment to start a company that custom-installed mesh antiglare screens on computer monitors.
In case you're wondering, there's still no wireless connectivity to be found, meaning tethering to your computer is a must for loading and off-loading digital content.
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