The device could be used to power monitors and mobile devices, to name a few possible applications.
Traditionally, cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) were somewhat different, depending on whether they were being used for computer monitors or televisions.
While no deaths have been put down to malware in medical equipment, an example is given on how fetal monitors used on women with high-risk pregnancies being treated in intensive-care wards were slowed down by malware.
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Romagnoli said similar monitors were used to check on the physical training of Chile's Davis Cup tennis stars.
Similar rear-projection LCOS microdisplays will be used to make computer monitors that are sharper and more space-efficient than current CRTs.
Infra-red (IR) camera monitors currently used by firefighters require lenses that can be blinded by intense fire, said researcher Pietro Ferraro, of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Istituto Nazionale di Ottica in Italy.
These have been used with great success by monitors in scores of elections around the world.
For example, wearable health monitors could be used to notify you or your doctor as soon as something is wrong with your vital signs.
For the IT panel sector, the continuation of weak demand for panels used in notebook PCs and monitors was offset by strong demand for tablet PC panels.
The database will be used by the Homeland Security Operations Center, which monitors incidents around the country to determine if there's a potential threat.
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The study also revealed that so-called blocklists, used by some illegal file-sharers to prevent monitors from connecting to their computers, might not be much use.
The RPi has since be used to power everything from home-made jukeboxes to baby monitors to miniature near-space crafts and digital weather-stations.
This frequency is crowded since it is used by everything from other tablets to microwave ovens, baby monitors, Bluetooth devices, not to mention the neighbors' Wi-Fi networks.
The electricity generated by a micro-wind turbine is transmitted and stored in a battery before being used to drive home electrical appliances such as lights, LCD monitors and TV sets.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, used to employ Iraqis in sensitive positions.
The monitors do not stray onto the private roads and tracks used by the hunt, and so inevitably lose track of them for a while.
Industry pundits used to seeing web pages displayed on crisp, high-resolution computer monitors slammed the service for fuzzy graphics and nearly unreadable text.
But about six of the biggest-scale monitors were harder to identify, as the companies behind them used third-party hosting firms to run the searches for them.
LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of today's electronic devices, including smartphones, TV screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet computers.
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At one point, the nearby Climax mine produced close to 75 percent of the world's molybdenum, which is used as a hardening agent for steel in cars, as well as in computer chips and monitors.
But it helps that America has been assisting Russia and others with security upgrades, including better fences, surveillance equipment and radiation monitors, as well as security training, at military and civilian sites where nuclear materials are used or stored.
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