`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

Eventually a product called the " Goldfingers device " was created that could unlock the CPU, named after the gold connector pads on the processor board that it attached to.

) At the bottom of the screen, the player controls a device called a " pointer ", which aims and fires bubbles up the screen.

Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel are developing a different device called the BioPen, essentially a " Lab-in-a-Pen ", which can detect known biological agents in under 20 minutes using an adaptation of the ELISA, a similar widely employed immunological technique, that in this case incorporates fiber optics.

Timecode can also be superimposed on video using a dedicated overlay device, often called a " window dub inserter ".

Once one copy of a document has been produced, printing further copies is often quicker by means of a device called a " thermoform ", which produces copies on soft plastic.

" Since the term " CPU " is generally defined as a device for software ( computer program ) execution, the earliest devices that could rightly be called CPUs came with the advent of the stored-program computer.

The input device used to manipulate video games is called a game controller, and varies across platforms.

A keyset or chorded keyboard ( also called a chorded keyset, chord keyboard or chording keyboard ) is a computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like playing a " chord " on a piano.

When a device is designed to perform without the need of human inputs for correction it is called automatic control ( such as cruise control for regulating a car's speed ).

Multiple cables to different rooms are split off the incoming cable with a small device called a splitter.

The cable car begins moving when a clamping device attached to the car, called a grip, applies pressure to (" grips ") the moving cable.

The device used in distillation, sometimes referred to as a still, consists at a minimum of a reboiler or pot in which the source material is heated, a condenser in which the heated vapour is cooled back to the liquid state, and a receiver in which the concentrated or purified liquid, called the distillate, is collected.

Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ( WDF ).

A multi-effects device ( also called a " multi-FX " device ) is a single electronics effects pedal or rackmount device that contains many different electronic effects.

There are then two types of work performed: flow work described above, which is performed on the fluid ( this is also often called pV work ), and shaft work, which may be performed on some mechanical device.

Fax ( short for facsimile ), sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material ( both text and images ), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.

Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called " geocaches " or " caches ", anywhere in the world.

The SSI was an 800-by-800-pixel solid state camera consisting of an array of silicon sensors called a " charge coupled device " ( CCD ).

In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called " As We May Think ", about a futuristic proto-hypertext device he called a Memex.

It is done using a refrigeration device called a cryostat.

As a result, Mattel Electronics set up a competing internal engineering team whose stated mission was to produce an inexpensive add-on called the BASIC Development System, or BDS, to be sold as an educational device to introduce kids to the concepts of computer programming.

The eighth of nine children of Jewish immigrants and a college dropout ( he enrolled both at Columbia University and the City College of New York ), Cowen received his first patent in 1899, for a device that ignited a photographer's flash.

Needham asserts Shen had discovered the survey device known as Jacob's staff, which was not described elsewhere until the Provençal Jewish mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( 1288 – 1344 ) wrote of it in 1321.

" Schweizer believes that the introduction of the Jewish leaders is simply a device so that there will be someone to quote the Old Testament passage that appears in Matthew 2: 6.

It is an averaging device intended to ease the tax burden of fluctuating income ; ;

The bewildered and terrified freedmen know not what to do — to leave is death ; to remain is to suffer the increased burden imposed upon them by the cruel taskmaster, whose only interest is their labor, wrung from them by every device an inhuman ingenuity can devise ; hence the lash and murder is resorted to intimidate those whom fear of an awful death alone cause to remain, while patrols, Negro dogs and spies, disguised as Yankees, keep constant guard over these unfortunate people.

* The act of running a machine or device, such as an engine, at a rate, burden or power level higher than it can handle, risking permanent damage to the machine.

If there is a 30 mA protective device in use and there is a 10mA burden from various sources then the unit will trip at 20 mA.

It seems that neither the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors nor Peter Medawar even considered that it may be a bit too much to ask from such a simple instruction device to carry the burden of representing the entire process of scientific discovery.

" ( RU ), a reserved device control ( DC0 ), synchronous idle ( SYNC ), and acknowledge ( ACK ).

However, algorithms are also implemented by other means, such as in a biological neural network ( for example, the human brain implementing arithmetic or an insect looking for food ), in an electrical circuit, or in a mechanical device.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

* In a diode, it is the positive terminal at the tail of the arrow symbol ( base of the triangle ), where current flows into the device.

The flow of electrons is always from anode to cathode outside of the cell or device, regardless of the cell or device type and operating mode, with the exception of diodes, where electrode naming always assumes current in the forward direction ( that of the arrow symbol ), i. e., electrons flow in the opposite direction, even when the diode reverse-conducts either by accident ( breakdown of a normal diode ) or by design ( breakdown of a Zener diode, photo-current of a photodiode or solar cell ).

A master Bluetooth device can communicate with a maximum of seven devices in a piconet ( an ad-hoc computer network using Bluetooth technology ), though not all devices reach this maximum.

These concepts include one-to-one correspondence ( the basis of counting ), comparison to a standard ( used for measurement ), and the 3-4-5 right triangle ( a device for assuring a right angle ).

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

* Corvus ( boarding device ), a boarding device used by ancient Roman warships

The concept was similar in principle to the bucket-brigade device ( BBD ), which was developed at Philips Research Labs during the late 1960s.

" From these principles and some additional constraints —( 1a ) a lower bound on the linear dimensions of any of the parts, ( 1b ) an upper bound on speed of propagation ( the velocity of light ), ( 2 ) discrete progress of the machine, and ( 3 ) deterministic behavior — he produces a theorem that " What can be calculated by a device satisfying principles I – IV is computable.

Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably technically correct ( although historically false ), etymology has been suggested: cathode, from the Greek kathodos, ' way down ', ' the way ( down ) into the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.

* CRM 114 ( fictional device ), a device in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove

** Pontoon ( boat ), a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges

Laboratory display of distillation: 1: A heating device 2: Still pot 3: Still head 4: Thermometer / Boiling point temperature 5: Condenser 6: Cooling water in 7: Cooling water out 8: Distillate / receiving flask 9: Vacuum / gas inlet 10: Still receiver 11: Heat control 12: Stirrer speed control 13: Stirrer / heat plate 14: Heating ( Oil / sand ) bath 15: Stirring means e. g. ( shown ), boiling chips or mechanical stirrer 16: Cooling bath.

While a group of bits malfunction may be resolved by error detection and correction mechanisms ( see above ), storage device malfunction requires different solutions.

* Director ( military ), a device that continuously calculates firing data

While a group of bits malfunction may be resolved by error detection and correction mechanisms ( see above ), storage device malfunction requires different solutions.

According to the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed by Carlo Rovelli, observations such as those in the double-slit experiment result specifically from the interaction between the observer ( measuring device ) and the object being observed ( physically interacted with ), not any absolute property possessed by the object.