Though they are an improvement on a computer screen, e-book readers remain crude simulacra of books.
In her laboratory at the University of Washington, mathematician Kristin Rae Swanson peers into the future of brain cancer patients--on her computer screen.
So the task that Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro devised was to look at a field of small spots on a computer screen, four-fifths of them stationary and the rest drifting slowly to the left or the right.
We share bathrooms with one sink and watch movies on a 13-inch computer screen.
BaseCamp displays topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on their computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles.
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"Dear, " which always looked fine atop a business letter, or a handwritten note, is increasingly seen as archaic and old-fashioned on a computer screen or on a smartphone or mobile device.
In other words, that one 3-inch by 3-inch picture on the computer screen is hogging no less than 6% of the entire Internet backbone capacity in North America.
The results were similar when the women completed a computer-based task that involved counting dots on a screen.
For your presentation development, you can do your brainstorming on a whiteboard, a computer screen or Post-it Notes as you generate your ideas, but what is as important as the free flow is that you see the ideas you generate in a panoramic or landscape view.
People turned a knob and an EKG-like graph showed up on the computer screen.
To handle that, the team placed an envelope on the back of the computer screen that is pre-paid and addressed to the nearest facility that can recycle those three elements.
Before every test begins, the proctor asks the test taker to pan the room with their web camera, said Jarrod Morgan, a vice president at Proctor U. During that sweep, proctors see all sorts of things: answers on Post-it Notes taped to the computer screen, another person sitting in the room, a second laptop open to Google.
Since 2000, Amazon had been offering various kinds of e-books (to be read on a computer screen), without success.
Examine the sound-wave form of the album on a computer screen, and you will see a solid bar, free of any dynamic spikes or divots.
Just then, the match came alive on the screen of a co-worker's computer.
Today dies are designed on a computer screen, and the data are transferred to computer-controlled machines, which cut the dies automatically.
Speaking of forking over money for apps, you can do just that through the web store checkout process -- put in your credit card right on your computer screen, save for later use (if that's your thing), and you're good to go shopping.
The Microsoft Surface, a horizontal touch-screen computer with neither keyboard nor mouse, will go on sale in November.
Mind you, it is my fault - I made her angry by adjusting a slider on a computer screen.
My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.
Computer games as we know them are played on powerful computers and are rich with big-screen graphics, movie-like soundtracks and fast action.
When the camera detects a heat source in the shape of a human being, the on-board computer alerts the driver by highlighting the pedestrian in yellow on the dashboard screen.
Today, virtually every consumer has more than one screen: a television, smartphone, tablet and computer -- not to mention the big screen they may have seen the movie on in the first place.
In the late 1970s he arrived at a client, Caterpillar, and learned that the information he had once held exclusively and provided by hand--bond prices--was now arriving electronically from a rival and blinking away on a computer screen.
The company spends heavily on research and development, and it has produced breakthroughs in semiconductor, screen and computer-memory technology.
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Rubin released a paper criticizing computer code discovered on the Internet that was an excerpt of the programming in Diebold's touch-screen machines.
Before KeepShot, I had a hard time imagining doing any book editing without a computer mouse, but after a couple of days with the iPad app, my fingers' on-screen gestures were able to create a photo book with no problem.
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Doubling your screen real estate is a great way of getting the most out of the information that your computer's giving you without having to switch back and forth between pages on a smaller, single-screen setup.
For someone with the current brain-computer interface technology, it takes tremendous concentration and effort to type out a short message on a computer screen.
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Like a motion-controlled video gaming system, the Virtual Music Instrument employs a camera that is mounted on a computer screen and aimed at someone, capturing their gestures.
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