This means the transistors - or tiny on-off switches that power its processors - can be shrunk in size.
"I usually recommend less than one ounce of dark chocolate a day -- a tiny square -- for heart health, " she adds.
Long-time favourite 12 Bar Club at number 26 stages gigs seven nights a week, booking new and rising singer-songwriters for the intimate - OK, tiny - venue.
The company, which is the brains behind the Kinect, has been openly working on bringing a tiny-yet-advanced 3D experience to tablets, televisions and smartphones for quite some time now.
The Hewlett-Packard scientist behind the project, Phil Kuekes, said his next step would be to build a 16-bit memory chip in a tiny square--no more than 100 billionths of a meter inside.
Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.
The key to cracking that nut is apparently the new thermal assisted optical element Fujitsu's developed, allowing for an ultra-tiny sub-hundred nanometer optical spot size, which in turn should enable recording on the one terabit (not byte, let's not get crazy here) per square inch level.
We guess that makes sense since it has to fit into a standard SIM slot, but it's rocket science how they managed to fit all that circuitry into a board that tiny -- in fact, we were shown an x-ray view of the card, and the number of chips, resistors, and miscellaneous pieces of technology in there is nothing short of mind-bending.
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The other surprise, a small presentation also at MILK Studios, was a label called Calla characterized by bold prints in geometric in neon yellow and purple. (It also smelled like a rose-filled winter garden inside, courtesy olfactory branding company 12.29.) The silk-screened slim-fit pants, cute above-the-knee dresses, and thick PVC heels worked well together with tiny T-shirt-cut tops and softly angled jackets.
At Mach 4 or 5, the air flow would become dangerously hot but this heat exchanger - consisting of a dense and closely-guarded bundle of tiny tubes - would chill things down to a manageable temperature in milliseconds.
The big, integrated steel makers pooh-poohed the tiny mini-mills when they started up in the 1970s.
Even within the Jewish community, some - albeit a tiny minority - believe circumcision can leave a lasting psychological as well as a physical scar.
And Belgium, France and - to a tiny extent - Luxembourg are also providing guarantees that lenders of up to 90bn euros to Dexia over the coming ten years would get their money back (they are guaranteeing up to 90bn euros of inter-bank and bond funding for up to a decade).
Witty has abandoned me-too drugs--shutting down research into depression, anxiety, pain and other mature categories--and created 40 tiny biotech-style units that have autonomy.
The plan is to first launch a service craft -- replete with robotic arms and enough processing horsepower to work independently if needed -- followed by the tiny base-unit skeleton satlets.
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Composed of light-absorbing, colloidal quantum dots linked to carbon-based fullerene nanoparticles, these tiny two-particle systems can convert light to electricity in a precisely controlled way.
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Researchers at the University of Southampton have followed their instincts and built Iridis-Pi, a tiny 64-node cluster based on the Raspberry Pi's usual Debian Wheezy distribution and linked through Ethernet.
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The government is now trying to soothe the fears of the German-speaking losers in the country's eastern heartland, such as the tiny half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, where 68% of the voters (by head-count, a total of 4, 486 people) said No.
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And at the stroke of six--when Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) stores were swinging their doors open to hordes of crazed gadget shoppers--a tiny, white-haired old lady wearing a huge pair of sunglasses shuffled up to the counter to ask for directions to the nearby firehouse.
Cells are lined up like ants and passed one-by-one through a tiny fluid channel one-fourth the width of a human hair, and a digital camera sensor chip captures images of the cells as they pass over an array of nanoscale holes.
Video playback was fine but it's hard to be enthusiastic about watching anything other than very-brief clips on the S-series' tiny 2.4-inch QVGA display.
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In the case, Ariad Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: ARIA - news - people ), a tiny, money-losing biotech based in Cambridge, Mass.
Goodfellow's unit has so miniaturized the mass screening of such compounds that machines now replicate the countless experiments in pinhead-size droplets--1, 536 tiny wells on envelope-size plates--a process that formerly took humans untold man-hours.
Well into old age he could be spotted, in bright red parka and with frozen beard, lying full-length on the Antarctic sandstone to snap some tiny life-containing fissure in the rocks.
The image of Photo 51 is tiny - just a few centimetres across - and holding the glass plate in my hands felt like handling a piece of history.
Taste with them at HQ, then head out with driver Said Jarrar, a genial man who homes-in on tiny, off-the-map wineries, and knows the gate code when you get there.
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Business groups say that no-unemployed-applicants-need-apply ads represent a tiny fraction of the millions of job openings nationwide each year.
It was an entire sub-culture gathered in the steep wooden bench seats surrounding the tiny sawdust-strewn auction ring.
Most retailers carry only a few styles, such as tiny-brimmed knit hats or shearling, fake-fur or other fur hats, which are easier to fit.
The devices developed by the Georgia Tech researchers rely on a different physical phenomenon - tiny polarisation changes when so-called "piezoelectric" materials such as zinc oxide are moved or placed under strain.
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