There are front-panel controls for brightness, color, contrast, tint and aspect ratio.
Along the bottom are buttons for brightness (which only appears if you've got the light turned on), page progress (via a slider), text format and additional features.
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Something we also saw on the Helix that'll be carried through to the T431s and X230s is a slight alteration to the function keys -- they'll be the secondary use of hotkeys for brightness, volume and such, rather than the other way around.
Additional new touch-screen controls include on-screen sliders for adjusting brightness and Scene Effect Adjustment, which offers controls specific to the scene mode in use.
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Rather, it's a reflective display that uses a PNLC (Polymer Networked Liquid Crystal) module for improved brightness, and HR-TFT (high-reflective thin film transistor) technology to add contrast.
That's how it developed the first wet sandpaper for the car industry, hook-and-loop closures for diapers, reflective sheeting for road signs and brightness-enhancement films for laptops.
LEDs are becoming brighter and even more efficient-requiring fewer bulbs to achieve target brightness for a given display.
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This amazing new technology starts with a compact display engine capable of hi contrast and brightness for outdoor use.
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The screen is really great, with a good amount of viewing angle and brightness for the category and plenty of resolution to differentiate HD content.
The energy-saving LED technology and the high-capacity battery allow users to display videos with full brightness for up to 80 minutes without need to recharge the battery.
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In addition, the Optical Picture (OPC) feature helps save power by using a sensor on the front of the TV to detect ambient room light, and automatically adjusts TV brightness for the best picture.
Light sensor for getting the brightness.
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While not quite as "nano" as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor, the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what's known as transit observation -- that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it.
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Kepler works by monitoring the thousands of stars in its field of view for tiny changes in brightness.
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Screen: 2-inches, backlit and the "best Game Boy screen ever" with adjustable brightness controls for use indoors or outdoors.
Additionally, ISFccc calibration options allows for professional calibration to set "day" and "night" levels for optimal viewing and brightness levels customized to the consumers own viewing environment.
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As David Rubin of the University of California, Berkeley, lead author on the study, told the AAS meeting, "for a sense of brightness, this supernova is about as bright as a firefly viewed from 3, 000 miles away".
V4, where the light reflected from a surface is compared with that reflected from surrounding surfaces, in order to control for relative rather than absolute brightness.
The transit method for finding planets searches for the small drop in brightness of a star that occurs when a planet passes in front of it and blocks some of its light.
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Rounding out the new set's photographic prowess is a unique LED flash with support for 5 levels of automatic brightness control and a front facing 1.3 megapixel number that'll sort your 720p HD needs.
Screen contrast and brightness are easily adjusted for comfortable viewing in any lighting conditions.
The screen brightness is easily adjusted for reading in any light.
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That means you can tweak your images (adjust color, brightness and contrast, for example) without having to launch a separate program and reupload your files with every change.
"For safety, no A or B class roads will have lamps switched off during the darkest hours although eight stretches have been selected for dimming to half the usual brightness, " he added.
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By wirelessly connecting the lights, a computer with Enlighted software can adjust the brightness of the light for each cubicle and automatically lower or cut off the amount of electricity going to the lights at different times of the day.
For example historically materials used in blue OLEDs had a life span of 14, 000 hours to half original brightness, compared to 40, 000 hours for traditional LEDs.
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As well as using high-precision monitoring to check for fluctuations in the star's brightness, the satellite will also determine the planet's radius.
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Kepler flags exoplanet candidates via the transit method, which looks for dips in a star's brightness caused by an object crossing in front of it.
Google's version requires one more tap to toggle the secondary panel for the common settings, including screen brightness, WiFi, auto screen rotation toggle and airplane mode.
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Users will also be able to change the settings for their phone screens, such as brightness level and the time that elapses before the display goes dark.
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