Portable power tools have obvious advantages in mobility.

Portable electric tools may be either corded or battery-powered.

Portable fire extinguishers are safety tools that are required to be on hand in almost every public building.

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Portable hand operating tools use for mining process such as shovel, picks, pans ( specially made from bamboo ) and cradles.

Portable irons can be heated by combustion of gas stored in a small tank, often using a catalytic heater rather than a flame.

" Portable CT Scanners " are light weight, small, and mounted on wheels.

Portable computers, originally monochrome CRT-based and developed into the modern laptops, were originally considered to be a small niche market, mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, accountants and sales representatives.

Portable sawmills became popular in the United States starting in the 1970s, when the 1973 energy crisis and the back to the land movement had led to renewed interest in small woodlots and in self-sufficiency.

CIH infects Portable Executable files by splitting the bulk of its code into small slivers inserted into the inter-section gaps commonly seen in PE files, and writing a small re-assembly routine and table of its own code segments ' locations into unused space in the tail of the PE header.

* Portable storage device, small hard drive

In Order of the Phoenix, the twins are permanently banned from Quidditch after a postmatch brawl with Malfoy, and later eschew the remainder of their seventh year by taking part in a student uprising against Umbridge, during which they light off a mass of fireworks and conjure up a Portable Swamp in a corridor before abandoning their education ; a small amount of the swamp is later kept and cordoned off by Filius Flitwick as a tribute.

Portable taps with small CO < sub > 2 </ sub > cylinders are also available.

Portable taps with small CO < sub > 2 </ sub > cylinders are also available.

* Portable media digital hard drives, with several incompatible formats, both a small market of write-once optical drives ( requiring the use of a protective, plastic carrier ) and several more successful but also incompatible magnetic read-write cassette drives.

In Volume 16, Number 1, Page 41 ( 1977 ) of the IBM Systems Journal the article " The IBM 5100 and the Research Device Coupler — A personal laboratory automation system " read: " A small laboratory automation system has been developed by using the IBM 5100 Portable Computer in conjunction with the Research Device Coupler.

NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects avoided these issues via a strong versioning system, allowing library authors to ship new versions along with the old, thereby guaranteeing backward compatibility for the small cost of disk space.

* 2004: A small false preview for a Lord of the Rings kart-racer that EGM claimed was one of the first games for the PlayStation Portable.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme ( PAS ) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public.

Portable art ( sometimes called mobiliary art ) refers to the small examples of Prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place, typically made during the Upper Palaeolithic.

The PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) is SCE's first foray into the small handheld console market, which was and to this date still is dominated by Nintendo.

* Portable Computing Device, small computers for mobile computing

Other exceptions to this dual-stick rule are Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's 3DS handheld game consoles ( although the latter may be upgraded to dual-stick functionality through the use of an accessory ), which both feature only a single small, flat sliding analog " nub ".

Portable hot tub / portable home spa: name for any hot tub / home spa that is pre-assembled and sits above ground ; actual size and features of a portable hot tub vary widely, from small portable hot tubs that weigh only a few hundred pounds and plug into a household outlet to large tubs that weigh several thousand pounds and require specific installation methods and electrical wiring.

Portable fence energizers are made for temporary fencing, powered solely by batteries, or by a battery kept charged by a small solar panel.

Portable playpens come in different sizes, but most are expected to be collapsed into a small roll for easy storage and transport.

Portable chests are a type of tool storage that is small enough to carry, but has drawers to organize contents.

The first product Spyderco produced was the Portable Hand in 1976, this " spider-shaped device ", which gave the company its name, was a series of angles, ball joints and alligator clips that helped people such as jewelers and hobbyists work with small parts.

* Ridge Racer ( PSP ) ( 2004-Japan, 2005-USA / EU ), for PlayStation Portable, mixed new vehicles with tracks from the previous games.

MIPS implementations are primarily used in embedded systems such as Windows CE devices, routers, residential gateways, and video game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.

In PlayStation Portable game such as: WipEout Pure

* Desktop and Portable Computers: discusses accessibility related to standardized ports, and mechanically operated controls such as keyboards and touch screens.

Portable walls, such as room dividers or portable partitions, are used to take a large open space and effectively divide it into smaller rooms.

Portable walls can be static such as cubicle walls, or they can be wall panels mounted on casters to provide an easy way to reconfigure assembly space.

The input may be a page description in a high-level page description language such as PostScript, Portable Document Format, XPS or another bitmap of higher or lower resolution than the output device.

It introduced products such as the IBM PC Convertible which was outsold by the heavier but much earlier and more compatible Compaq Portable, and the PCjr, which had significant incompatibilities with the original PC and was soon discontinued.

Non-image data, such as scanned documents, may be incorporated using consumer industry standard formats like PDF ( Portable Document Format ), once encapsulated in DICOM.

* Certain gaming devices, such as the PlayStation Eye, Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita and some mobile devices, use cameras to augment computer graphics onto live footage.

The XScale is also used in devices such as PVPs ( Portable Video Players ), PMCs ( Portable Media Centres ), including the Creative Zen Portable Media Player and Amazon Kindle E-Book reader, and industrial embedded systems.

The forerunners of the desktop replacement were the portable computers of the early-to-mid 1980s, such as the Osborne I, Kaypro II, the Compaq Portable and the Commodore Executive 64 ( SX-64 ) computers.

A variety of game consoles have official ports ; ScummVM has been ported to gaming machines such as the PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube and Wii, and to handheld consoles including the GP2X, Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable.

Portable stoves can be used in diverse situations, such as for outdoor food service and catering and in field hospitals.

Portable stoves also use other types of fuel, such as alcohol or propane.

Portable stoves are therefore generally rated in terms of how quickly they can boil a liter ( or other appropriate size ) of water ; indeed, some commercial stove models are specifically optimized for fast boiling, with other operations such as frying or baking being an afterthought.

Portable stoves are widely used in areas where fuel such as wood is scarce or there is a significant fire or environmental hazard to building a campfire.

The Convertible was heavy, not much faster than the Portable it replaced ( despite the newer CMOS processor and use of static RAM ), didn't come with traditional PC expansion ports ( such as serial ports and a parallel port ) without an add-on, and had a hard-to-read, oddly-shaped LCD screen ( the first screens lacked a backlight ).

She has also lent her voice to English-language localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops ; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ; Seth Balmore in Lost Odyssey ; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II ; Norma Beatty in Tales of Legendia ; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty ( both of which reunite her with her Final Fantasy X and Drawn Together co-star James Arnold Taylor ) and Harley Quinn replacing Arleen Sorkin in Batman: Arkham City.

Portable computers are computers that can be hand-held, used on a lap, or worn in a pocket, belt, or the like, such as Personal digital assistants ( PDAs ).