This time, he topped the electrical- and mechanical-engineering category and won fifteen thousand dollars.
"Anytime you go in the lane and you see a 7-footer, you think twice about it, " saidThomas Fabian, a sophomore mechanical-engineering major who is generously listed at 5-foot-11.
The X-5's triple Shake Reduction (SR) system couples the PENTAX-developed mechanical sensor-shift-type SR mechanism with a digital SR mode for stills or movie SR mode for video to more effectively compensate for camera shake.
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Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.
Reports from the event suggest that it featured an impressive armada of more than 300 lavishly-apparelled vessels, and her leading barge contained a moving mechanical dragon -- complete with men dressed as monsters, casting fire towards the spectators on the riverbank.
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The same is true of 3D manufacturing devices that allow small-scale producers to get back in the game of producing everything from household goods to complex mechanical proto-types at ever-lower cost.
The Chevy Volt, however, is never powered by mechanical energy--it has no transmission.
Rough estimates suggest it was about 1, 500 times faster than the best mechanical hand-cranked calculator of that era, he added.
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All that began to crumble on October 2nd 1944, the day of the first public demonstration of mechanical cotton-picking in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Galileo and Newton were both great geniuses, but their mechanical cause-and-effect explanation of the world was something that most thoughtful folks could grasp.
All that was needed to make a mechanical energy-storage system was a good enough rotational seal, so the flywheel could spin freely inside a vacuum chamber with no air resistance.
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Much like a mechanical limited-slip differential, torque vectoring subtly pulses the brake of the inside front wheel in a corner, directing more torque to the outside wheel, actually helping bend the car into a corner.
Since they are leveraged institutions (they have a small amount of capital backing lots of assets), with nowadays more or less mechanical risk-management systems that in effect force them to sell when losses mount, this probably also increases volatility.
And along with another less-heralded brand, Mazda (also under the Ford umbrella), which will lead Ford to better engines and mechanical know-how (especially in small cars), Ford seems to be taking the approach that what it can learn from its subsidiaries will only better its own identity while simultaneously enhancing the credibility and individuality of its satellite companies.
Micro-mechanical logic chips could eventually be as small and easy to mass-produce as conventional ones.
Luckily for the companies cranking out flash memory--slim memory chips that mimic the capabilities of bulky mechanical hard drives--their old friend Steve Jobs is there to help.
They have ruled out two possibilities -- mechanical "impact" damage, like that caused by being dropped, or short-circuiting outside the battery.
Phosphor Reveal marks the world's first mechanical digital watches utilizing its proprietary Micro-Magnetic Mechanical DigitalTM (M3D) technology.
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The library provides commonly used touch-sensing decoding structures, such as keypad, rotary and slider, to allow upgrades from mechanical to touch-activated interfaces.
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The so-called Ekso, a mechanical skeleton created by California-based company Ekso Bionics, is designed to give paraplegics the power to walk unaided.
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It is now possible to compute the quantum-mechanical properties of atomic systems that are in effect infinite.
Electrical contacts made through the holes in the strip would drive electro-mechanical counters.
From an early age, billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showed spatial-mechanical talent.
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The masters of today's micro-mechanical universe have restored timepieces to the upper echelon of power toys, with attendant bragging rights.
Inside of the Stranger watch is a Ulysse Nardin produced mechanical caliber UN-690 automatic movement with a 48 hour power reserve.
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Magnetism is, ultimately, the result of a quantum-mechanical property known as spin.
This is a barrier of a higher order, and is enough to make the micro-mechanical switch dramatically more reliable in extreme conditions.
Researchers in the field use the acronym MEMS, for micro-electro-mechanical systems.
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Not disturbing it is the quantum-mechanical equivalent of not really looking.
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