A battery-powered radio may be helpful to get reports of fallout patterns and clearance.

For example, battery-powered cellular telephones often use a low-power analog front-end to amplify and tune in the radio signals from the base station.

Although her family did not have indoor plumbing until after her father's death, they had a battery-powered table radio that fascinated Brenda as a baby.

Three days later, the Captain, Wolff and Tintin take the battery-powered tank to explore some stalactite caves in the direction of the Ptolemaeus Crater ; inside a cave Snowy slips into an ice-covered fissure, damaging his two-way radio, and there is a minor drama in rescuing him, but they all return to the rocket safely.

A shower radio is a battery-powered radio that is waterproofed to allow it to be used in a bathroom or other wet environment.

Instead of battery-powered radio transmitters, the new tags are adhesive stickers with a button-sized microchip in the middle of, and a reflective antenna system throughout the tag.

Contact with outsiders comes by battery-powered marine radio and the occasional cargo ship.

Contact with outsiders comes by battery-powered marine radio and the occasional cargo ship.

The communications equipment may include a multi-band receiver / scanner, a citizens band ( CB ) radio, portable “ walkie-talkies ” with rechargeable batteries, and a portable battery-powered television.

There is a possibility that battery-powered radios with built-in radiation meters may become available.

The line is a line of battery-powered handheld game console sold by Nintendo.

The Segway PT is a two-wheeled self-balancing battery-powered electric vehicle invented by Dean Kamen.

It is usually important with a direct-current appliance not to reverse polarity unless the device has a diode bridge to correct for this ( most battery-powered devices do not ).

An E-Bow is small hand-held battery-powered device which can be used to excite the strings of an electric guitar.

NAND or NOR flash memory is also often used to store configuration data in numerous digital products, a task previously made possible by EEPROMs or battery-powered static RAM.

* 1916 With the addition of a battery-powered telephone, the design of the MK V is finalized – however, several more design improvements are made over the next two years.

The island is a car-free zone where the only vehicles allowed are horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles, tractors, and battery-powered buggies or motorised bicycles for elderly or disabled people.

The typical example of a heterogeneous network is a wireless light switch: The ZigBee node at the lamp may receive constantly, since it is connected to the mains supply, while a battery-powered light switch would remain asleep until the switch is thrown.

The IPG is a battery-powered neurostimulator encased in a titanium housing, which sends electrical pulses to the brain to interfere with neural activity at the target site.

Another option is to use heated clothing, which contains battery-powered electrical heating elements or gel packs.

An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator ( ICD ) is a small battery-powered electrical impulse generator that is implanted in patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic audio devices such as guitar effects, children's toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators.

The Ambient Temperature Recorder ( ATR-4 ) is a self-contained, battery-powered instrument, approximately the size of a deck of cards.

This is desirable since the Virtual Walls are battery-powered, to avoid wasting power projecting IR beams when they are not needed.

:* M3Power is a battery-powered version of the Mach3 Turbo razor which can also be used with the power switched off.

The Artix family is designed to address the small form factor and low power performance requirements of battery-powered portable ultrasound equipment, commercial digital camera lens control, and military avionics and communications equipment.

The EBow or ebow ( brand name for " Electronic Bow " or Energy Bow ) ( often spelled E-bow in common usage ) is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar, invented by Greg Heet in 1969.

The first Soviet pocket battery-powered programmable calculator, Elektronika " B3-21 ", was developed by the end of 1977 and released at the beginning of 1978.

Although a few limited-production battery-powered electric vehicles have appeared, they have not proved to be competitive owing to costs and operating characteristics.

There are also illuminated discs meant for nighttime play ; they are made of a phosphorescent plastic or contain battery-powered light-emitting diodes.

This was followed by HMOS-II, HMOS-III versions, and, eventually, a fully static CMOS version for battery-powered devices, manufactured using Intel's CHMOS processes.

Its low electrical power consumption enables it to be used in battery-powered electronic equipment.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17 ) during 1971 and 1972.

* Lower possible operating voltages, making transistors suitable for small, battery-powered applications.

Germany introduced its first battery-powered torpedo shortly before World War II, the G7e.

Directly heated cathode tubes continued to be widely used in battery-powered equipment as their filaments required considerably less power than the heaters required with indirectly-heated cathodes.

" Its battery-powered motor " produced 7. 5 horsepower ( 5. 6 kilowatts ).

In portable or battery-powered systems this can limit use of digital systems.

The quartz fiber dosimeters have to be prepared, usually daily, with a positive charge from either a hand-wound or battery-powered charging unit.

Some battery-powered handheld vacuums are wet / dry rated ; the appliance must be partially disassembled and cleaned after picking up wet materials, to avoid developing unpleasant odors.

This made them more suitable for battery-powered devices.

The battery-powered transmitter provided internal package temperature for about sixteen days and sent tracking signals for twenty days.