Although Yurke's tweezers are just a proof-of-principle, similar molecular motors might be used to assemble very tiny computer chips.
Then there was the North Yorkshire community school which had turned the Pi into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader to measure lap times in their cross-country races, and the London independent school whose pupils had come up with Teacher's Pet, a way of delivering homework via USB sticks plugged into the tiny computer.
The tiny super-computer also boasts an impressive array of mega-hot software like Word, Excel, a picture browser, an e-book reader, paint brush -- the list literally goes on and on.
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But tiny electronic gadgets like Apple Computer 's iPod Nano have paved the way to a smaller, sleeker aesthetic.
But tiny electronic gadgets like Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod Nano have paved the way to a smaller, sleeker aesthetic.
The Journal in February reported that Google was using special computer code to install tiny tracking files, or "cookies, " on some people's computers, iPhones and iPads, even if the devices were set to block this kind of tracking.
Dozo's face was modeled in clay, then digitized into a computer as 20, 000 tiny polygons.
DeepNines is a tiny Dallas software maker that protects corporate computer networks from hackers and other threats.
Just before 1 p.m. both the New England and New York grid operators sent e-mails to David Brewster, 34, and Timothy Healy, 37, who run Enernoc, a tiny Boston company with a very valuable computer network.
Mabuchi Motor has half the world market for tiny electric motors used in electronic gadgets and computer drives.
The final few hundred metres to the house will be crossed with a wireless connection, using transmitters mounted on Tepco's electricity poles and tiny receivers plugged into a subscriber's personal computer.
With all the hype surrounding this tiny startup, it feels like the hokeyness of a wrist computer has all but evaporated in the public's eye.
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This computer has no internal power supply, but when a specially designed reader sends out a radio signal, a tiny antenna draws power from the wave and uses it to wake the computer up.
Dawson Geophysical's special expertise consists of laying out hundreds of tiny sensors called geophones at 20-foot intervals, all wired to a master computer.
Dawson Geophysical's special expertise consists of laying out hundreds of tiny sensors called geophones at 6-meter intervals, all wired to a master computer.
If merely looking in front of you at a regular-sized computer monitor can cause discomfort, what about repeatedly glancing up at a tiny display?
Taylor, professor of Computer Sciences at Johns Hopkins University have tried another tack by making a tiny snake-like robot go where endoscopes have gone before and focused on making a fully articulated tip.
They help generate extra volume from "black box" traders who use computer programs to buy and sell stocks in millisecond intervals, often for a tiny loss, in order to reap rebates of 20 cents per 100 shares.
We hear you said, "The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen, " and went on to slap it on using a crank as a power source where there's no electricity.
These printers use something like a toothpaste tube of plastic or other material held vertically in an X-Y plotter that squirts out thin layers of tiny dots of material that build up, layer by layer, to produce a 3D replica of the computer-generated design.
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For example, in 2007, US researchers built tiny wind engines that created a "breeze" made up of charged particles, or ions, to cool computer chips.
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