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...well rats understand incoming signals," he explains. "When we stimulated a region of the whiskers, they 'felt' a touch." Someday, says Mandayam Srinivasan, director of the M.I.T. Touch Lab, who helped show two years ago that monkeys could control robots by thought alone, "you could build a neural chip for paralyzed people, similar to a cochlear implant for deaf people, that uses brain signals to control prostheses...
...today fewer than 30 of the 35,000 movie screens in the U.S.--and 25 of the 75,000 screens abroad--run digital projectors. And so far, all those projectors house TI's DLP chip, which consists of an array of tiny mirrors that flip on and off, refracting light through a prism and onto the screen. Kodak is developing a competing product set to launch next year. Its chip, manufactured by JVC, uses a liquid-crystal display instead of mirrors and, in a recent demonstration, appeared to match DLP's in quality. "The holdup right...
After the Rotary Club meeting in 1997, Wally Amos (of chocolate-chip cookie fame) connected Keith to a small Maui company, Inner Ocean Publishing. After he expanded the commandments to a book explaining the meaning of each one, that company not only bought the manuscript but sold its rights to several foreign publishers, as well as Penguin Putnam...
...Rotunda is round, as its name would suggest, and there are many spherical items to be purchased there with circular coins. Munch on a chocolate chip cookie while enjoying a Nantucket Nectars (though not a half-lemonade half-iced tea because they don’t have it)! Have a bagel garnished with sushi rolls! There are no other round cafés on campus, so take advantage of this one. The Sea Frost salad, though lacking circular culinary delights, offers a delightful combination of romaine lettuce, croutons and parmesan cheese tossed with caesar dressing and your choice of shrimp...
...Felix P. Johnson ’03 dipped a chocolate-chip cookie into his screwdriver last night. “It’ll taste really good,” he mumbled to horrified onlookers at Sandrine’s. Subsequent chemical analysis of Johnson’s vomit cannot determine if the cookie, the alcohol or the consumption of both together was most responsible for his subsequent bistro-soiling regurgitation...