As a sound-absorbing pad atop the device vibrates to ambient noise, causing the zinc oxide wires to compress and release.
Animal Collective's latest CD, on the Domino label, is the appropriately named Strawberry Jam: a sticky-sweet mixture of mashed-up musical elements, from noise pop and fringe folk to ambient drones and psychedelia, with crunchy seeds of noise rock.
The BeoVision 7 32-inch LCD does so with its built-in DVD player, distinctive speakers and integration with the company's BeoLink network, along with a screen that automatically adjusts to ambient lighting conditions and can be swiveled via remote to an optimum viewing angle.
With ears fully open to the ambient noise, we couldn't hear anything at all.
The backpack is designed to measure ambient toxics spewed by vehicles, pesticides, and chemicals from common household products.
It is intended to deliver ambient light rather than directed light for tasks, and contains a nickel-metal-hydride battery, rather than a cheaper nickel-cadmium cell.
Noisia, both as a band and as the composers of this soundtrack, are at their best when they stick to the ambient, synth-fueled sounds, and DMC has its fair share of these.
Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.
In addition, the Optical Picture (OPC) feature helps save power by using a sensor on the front of the TV to detect ambient room light, and automatically adjusts TV brightness for the best picture.
With integrated wireless control, consumers can enjoy a connected lifestyle and use mobile apps to command their lighting systems to turn on and off, or dim to an ambient setting as well as control temperature and color mixing.
The UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for harvesting and recycling energy for electronic devices - one that involves equipping these devices' LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polarizers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight and their own backlight into electricity.
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For example, the company says workers have found that the new and noisier shared workspace means that it is harder to block out ambient office hubbub, an observation that may lead to improvements in the next generation of headsets.
The Digital Silence DS-421D headset is also fitted with a Wolfson WM7130 MEMS microphone in each ear bud to pick up the ambient noise around the user prior to cancellation.
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The first devices to be powered entirely by ambient energy are likely to be sensors, calculators and clocks.
To combat variable ambient light conditions that can affect image visibility, manufacturers have the option of integrating ambient light sensor readings into the CAIC and LABB algorithms.
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It appears users will be able to update the sound processing on their respective devices to adjust for ambient noise and hone in on a specific sources.
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So is an electrotransparent glass roof that allows passengers to control the amount of sunlight entering the cabin during the day, or, at night, to adjust the ambient lighting.
Some apps that Havens models his ideas on are Emotionsense, an app for Android that uses the microphone to sample the ambient sounds and conversations of the day and assembles a dossier on how happy or sad you are, and Moodscope, a website that lets users share and understand their moods and get support from friends.
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Is at risk due to elevated or freezing ambient temperature in the car seat.
That led to an awkward, ambient few moments in a broadcast that's otherwise nonstop noise.
But Arborea is mostly an experimental album, with the Currans bowing and plucking their stringed instruments to create spacey, ambient drones more than standard chord progressions.
From colored lighting and ambient music to digital art (on your TV), temperature, window blinds and specially designed mood-enhanced wake-up calls (like "wake me gently" or "wake me wildly"), you can direct the room's whole look and feel, all without having to get out of bed.
Normally you want to leave car parks in a hurry, but here the ambient light and sound encourages you to slow down.
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Trevor Oswalt, the driving force behind East Forest, refers to his music as "ambient-electro-acoustic-post-rock, " or "Shaman-rock" for short.
They then use another polarizer to reduce or diffuse any ambient light from entering that display pixel as well.
By using the bacteria, the two men have found a way to change the liquid into a solid, and to do it at the ambient temperature.
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What's more, the algorithms can be tweaked separately by hardware manufacturers for any desired result, and can incorporate data from ambient light sensors to increase projector efficiency.
The future of clean tech is already looking bright, as the world's solar power capacity just hit a record 101 gigawatts, and researchers found a new way to charge batteries by harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves from thin air.
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Apple has embedded a fiber-optic lighting system to illuminate the keyboard and bolstered it with sensors that can tell when the ambient light in the room begins to dim.
One of the key challenges he had in developing Booktracks was in syncing the ambient noises and music to different reading speeds.
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