Both groups were equally good at thinking up ordinary uses for the objects.
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The actual benefits will come from the hard graft of interpreting the data and coming up with uses for them.
In another domain, not far away from the chip and fiber-optics factories, software writers cooked up clever uses for the new powers.
The hybrid design which Mr Jubb has come up with uses a solid fuel called hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, a form of synthetic rubber used to make things like aircraft tyres.
"We have been reviled as a patent troll, a renegade outfit that buys up patents and then uses them to hold up innocent companies, " Myhrvold wrote in a 6, 479-word Harvard Business Review article published last year.
But this uses up energy, so the Snake is slowly glowing itself to death.
Or the fact that a single, massive brick-and-mortar store uses up large energy resources on its own.
Also, sitting on a losing trade uses up time, money and mental capital.
Pursuit of an unworkable idea uses up more resources than it is worth.
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Local artist Ha-Ha uses up to 50 layers of paint in his pieces to create extraordinary depth and texture.
The hearty meals have a practical purpose, of course: life on a mountain farm uses up a lot of energy.
Kenya already uses up all its 1, 200MW capacity and is compensating for frequent power cuts by installing temporary diesel generators.
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When nuclear fusion uses up a star's fuel, in the central high-pressure stellar core where fusion occurs, the star will collapse fairly violently.
Ultrasonic touchless technology uses up to 95% less power than current camera image-based gestural systems, making it an attractive option for device manufactures around the world.
Markey is hooked to Quora, a social question and answer app, which he says he uses up to a dozen times a day.
Not to mention it uses up the towel supply quickly and means I'll be the guy who has wet hands and nowhere to dry them.
With a green-centric design, this compact and sleek PC mini uses up to 90% less plastic and consumes up to 90% less energy than traditional tower PCs.
At a recent competition for schools to come up with clever uses for the Raspberry Pi - the ultra-cheap micro-controller - there was a dearth of entries from state schools.
Fi is best suited to laptops: it uses up too much power for use in handheld computers or mobile phones and laptops are hardly ideal things to lug around the streets.
More than 90% of parents didn't pick that choice, and they were right: A small balance by itself shouldn't affect a score unless it uses up much of your available credit.
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And doing that also uses up plenty of electricity.
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In many respects, PrimeSense appears to be taking the same strategy Google does with Glass: get developers excited about the tech in the hopes they'll come up with clever uses for it.
Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy.
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The product, called Primequest, uses up to 32 of Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Itanium 2 processors per box and is designed to utilize both Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )Windows and the open source Linux operating systems.
Etch this into your brain--man discovers or creates resources faster than he uses them up.
Over time, you will come up with your own uses for your video blog.
Finally he picks up the plate and uses it to drop the ballot into the receptacle.
Up until now their uses have been limited because of the lack of inexpensive methods to generate and detect terahertz rays.
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