Moreover, there are several other difficulties that may prevent a device conferring total invisibility from being built.
There have been the discussions of using ultrasound waves to determine the distance between a transmitter and a medical device to prevent far-away attacks.
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The rear of the Z10 sports a hi-grip surface to help you hold the device and prevent from slipping , and just behind the Apple logo is the NFC antennae.
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Dr. Douglas Zipes, president of the American College of Cardiology and co-editor of a textbook on the procedure, said the device should prevent unforeseen problems, and the vice president could resume a normal schedule.
Plaintiff lawyers seem to have anticipated its findings and switched their strategy recently to focus not on unintended acceleration but the lack of a brake-override device to prevent it from happening for whatever cause.
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It was done to prevent people buying a rival device from Microsoft.
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Last year, researchers published a study suggesting the device could help prevent small heart attacks that occasionally occur in about 10% of procedures when stents are deployed to prop open diseased coronary arteries.
Jailbreaking allows applications not approved by Apple to be downloaded from any source, and it removes the security controls which prevent access to data on the device by unauthorized people and applications.
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The aim is to prevent gadgets becoming prohibitively expensive because a single device may make use of tens of thousands of patented inventions.
The same rules that protect clothes designers and music recordings from counterfeiters are being used to protect smart device manufacturers from disabling locks that prevent unintended use.
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" According to Air Force documents, this project calls for "a device that uses directed energy technology to prevent and abate unwanted plants (weeds) in areas that require control or defoliation.
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The Supreme Court has already said that abstract ideas, natural phenomena and laws of nature cannot be given a patent, which gives an inventor the right to prevent others from making, using or selling a novel device, process or application.
Of course, a device of that size also poses a number of problems, but Insound appears to have all those sorted out, with it employing a special "spongy material" that allows moisture to escape and prevent infection, and a magnet to actually remove the device from the ear.
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Meanwhile, the device is also being attached to fishing nets to prevent sharks stealing fishermen's catch.
The Superdome's power company took the blame Friday for the Super Bowl blackout, saying the cause was a faulty device that had been installed in its switching gear to prevent a failure of electric cables leading to the stadium.
The device, called the Amplatzer, is also being tested in adults to prevent strokes.
When Michael Dillingham, another researcher at Stanford who is also a doctor for the San Francisco 49ers, an American football team, heard about the device, he wondered if it could be put into reverse to help prevent overheating in athletes.
And, as we've seen by now, there are serious limitations to this device -- namely its price, image quality and battery life -- that may prevent that from happening.
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The device makers' effort is running into a heated debate among physicians over whether drug therapies to prevent stroke have surpassed stents or carotid artery surgery as the best treatment for many patients with artery blockage in the neck.
It's also unclear why RIM bothered using fancy piezoelectric switches rather than simple mechanical ones, because they're not doing anything with the technology other than letting you click -- when you turn off the phone, the switches "harden" and prevent you from pressing the screen, but there's no option to keep that effect going when the device is on.
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Device display must be dimmable (in one-percent increments, from zero to 100%) to prevent blinding operators during night time and NVG operations.
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