Among them, luxury cookware, innovative appliances or a crystal wine decanter.
LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of today's electronic devices, including smartphones, TV screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet computers.
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D-ILA chipsD-ILA on the other hand, is a very different technology than DLP and is actually a variant of LCoS or Liquid Crystal on Silicon.
Biologists are still running modelling experiments to determine whether to save the Wedgwood or leaded crystal as the house smoulders and timbers fall from the roof.
Apple should learn to use more steel versus aluminum for the case, and sapphire crystal or perhaps the new Gorilla Glass 3 for an iWatch screen.
"I look at it as if the vase is the body and the flowers are the clothing, " says Mr. Leatham, who prefers crystal or clear-glass vases with clean lines.
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There is a determination, not least because of public opinion, to negotiate with Iran until it either yields results or it becomes crystal clear to everyone that further negotiations are pointless.
The Mayor deserves special credit for recognizing that innovation of the fundamental and transformational kind does not emerge from a committee or agency gazing into a crystal ball and laying bets on any specific company or technology.
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With a simple click, I was able to make either the bush, or the wall, crystal clear.
Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
To illustrate, consider how a quickly flowing stream forms stable eddies as it curls around a boulder, or how a snow crystal spontaneously grows its precise, hexagonally symmetric, yet idiosyncratic branches.
Contacts just need to download Libon for free from the App Store or Google Play to begin enjoying free crystal clear calls between each other on 3G or Wi-Fi.
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Russell and Xu's method starts with a sliced crystal, either sapphire or silicon, cut at an angle that exposes a ragged section of the crystal's lattice structure.
The vast majority of TVs use liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, though a sizable minority use plasma technology.
The problem is that it is not entirely about talent, or both Adam Lambert and Crystal Bowersox would both now be American Idols.
It could be defects due to missing atoms, thermal vibrations of the crystal lattice, or even the boundaries between small, imperfectly formed crystals that make up the material.
Finally, order a glass or two of fine champagne at one of the city's stellar nightclubs - try Crystal on Rue Monot for bling or B018 in Quarantine for subterranean cool - then sit back, watch Beirut's beautiful people out to play, and toast to the completion of a road trip with which few others back home will be able to match.
When faced with adversity (or opportunity), having a crystal-clear definition of winning keeps the company from going off in too many directions.
In the second mode of working, the crystal fibre uses the regular array of holes to influence light in much the same way as the arrangement of atoms in a crystal can determine whether electrons are able to travel easily through it and hence whether the crystal is electrically conducting or not.
During our demo, music was streamed from the other end of our conference call to the Continental GT and it sounded like we were spinning the tracks ourselves -- crystal clear with no distortion or static to be heard.
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Yet, there are few companies that operate under more confusing conditions than Alcoa, certainly raising the question of whether it is of any importance at all as a crystal ball for the economy or the rest of the stock market.
While the basic concept has morphed and evolved in those past 15 years or so, we are still far from crystal clarity on the matter.
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The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.
Nu-Tek Salt has come up with a way to replace salt, or sodium chloride, in food with a proprietary crystal fashioned from potassium chloride and an organic acid. (see photo.) It tastes like salt, behaves like salt in recipes, and has the same texture and feel.
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Anyone who has an NVIDIA 3D Vision laptop or PC can watch some of the videos below in crystal clear 3D.
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Issey Nakajima-Farran, who can play either on the wing or up front, came through the youth ranks at Crystal Palace before the 24-year-old Canada international moved to Japan and first arrived in the Danish Superliga with Vejle Boldklub in 2006.
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