There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

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.

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

Well-funded groups like Canada's Ballard Power Systems are also working to develop a " regenerative fuel cell ", a device that can generate hydrogen and oxygen when power is available, and combine these efficiently when power is needed.

There are also cycling specific multi-tools that combine many of these implements into a single compact device.

A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device cut from a tree trunk, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones.

He also argues that John's " poor " Greek is a literary device since Galileans were known to have excellent Greek.

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

Clinical engineers also advise and collaborate with medical device producers regarding prospective design improvements based on clinical experiences, as well as monitor the progression of the state-of-the-art so as to redirect procurement patterns accordingly.

* Weighing scale, also known as a balance, a type of device used to measure the mass of an object.

Its purpose is to unburden the application software programmer from the often complex details of the particular computer being used, including such accessories as communications devices, printers, device readers, displays and keyboards, and also to partition the computer's resources such as memory and processor time in a safe and stable manner.

A calendar is also a physical device ( often paper ).

A calendar is also a physical device ( often paper ) ( for example, a desktop calendar or a wall calendar ).

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.

The Wu Xing, ( 五行 wŭ xíng ) also known as the Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, and the Five Steps / Stages, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields.

The causeways themselves may have been slightly submerged ; this has been interpreted as a device to make access difficult yet this can also simply be a by-product of loch level fluctuations over the ensuing centuries or indeed millennia.

NASCAR also made the use of the HANS device mandatory in all cars following Earnhardt's death.

In optics, an equivalent device for the diode but with laser light would be the Optical isolator, also known as an Optical Diode, that allows light to only pass in one direction.

The Doctor V64 ( also referred to simply as the V64 ) is a development and backup device made by Bung Enterprises Ltd that is used in conjunction with the Nintendo 64.

The virtual device driver can also send simulated processor-level events like interrupts into the virtual machine.

A PCI device has often an ID pair for the main chip of the device, and also a subsystem ID pair which identifies the vendor, which may be different from the chip manufacturer.

He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge.

A multiplier ( which is a nonlinear device ) will generate ideally only the sum and difference frequencies, whereas an arbitrary nonlinear block would generate also signals at e. g. 2 · f < sub > 1 </ sub >- 3 · f < sub > 2 </ sub >, etc.

In class-AB operation, each device operates the same way as in class B over half the waveform, but also conducts a small amount on the other half.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

Their computer-in-a-keyboard design prominently features an integrated storage device, either a compact cassette deck or 3 " floppy disk drive.

After his patent was rejected by the Telegraph Administration, Mimault modified his device to incorporate features from the Meyer telegraph and obtained a new patent which was also rejected.

They share many common features, often opening with praise of the greenwood and relying heavily on disguise as a plot device, but include a wide variation in tone and plot.

The novel Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards, set after The Ice Warriors and before Fury from the Deep, features the Second Doctor utilising the device to break through a concrete wall.

* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, Father Time, features an amnesiac Doctor attempting to recreate the sonic screwdriver with 1980s technology, eventually producing a bulky device nicknamed the " sonic suitcase ".

These models also use new power management features which give the device a three-hour battery life after only three minutes of charging.

David Sobel and Alison Gopnik from the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley designed a device known as the blicket detector, which suggests that " when causal property and perceptual features are equally evident, children are equally as likely to use causal powers as they are to use perceptual properties when naming objects ".

Common reasons for updating firmware include fixing bugs or adding features to the device.

This refers to delivering mobile content, such as mobile internet to a mobile phone, agnostic of the features of said device.

Auto Sync allows users to specify criteria such as recently added music or highest rated songs, by which media will be automatically synchronized with the portable device and other advanced features like setting the clock on the portable device automatically, communicating with the device to retrieve the user's preferences.

The Sancai Tuhui, a Chinese encyclopedia published in 1609, features the next known picture of a fishing reel and vividly shows the windlass pulley of the device.

The device features include touchscreen, Smart-card, Serial port, and USB connections, and an Infrared Data Association ( IrDA ) port.

RSX-11 provided features to ensure less than a maximum necessary response time to peripheral device input ( i. e. real-time processing ), its intended use.

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction.

Fox had worked on the Hawkman, Flash and Sandman features in All-Star for its first two issues ( Summer and Autumn, 1940 ), but from issue # 3 ( Winter ), he assumed full writing duties for the issue, with all features ( by different artists ) working within the framing device wherein the characters were described as part of a " Justice Society ".

Two of the more specific features associated with this text are ( 1 ) a preference for reason over authority in matters of science and nature ( in other words, seeking solutions via reason and logic rather than through faith ) and ( 2 ) the use of the literary device of invoking Arab teachings when presenting very controversial topics ( i. e. that brute animals may possess knowledge and souls ) Curiously, Adelard didn't think that the use of reason to seek knowledge was in anyway contradictory with Christian faith in God.

Unlike prior versions of the API, Direct3D 10 no longer uses " capability bits " ( or " caps ") to indicate which features are supported on a given graphics device.

The Direct3D runtime in Windows 8 features DXGI 1. 2 and requires new WDDM 1. 2 device drivers.

More recently, high-end hobby systems using Pulse-Code Modulation ( PCM ) features have come on the market that provide a computerized digital bit-stream signal to the receiving device instead of analog type pulse modulation.

Besides the sound device drivers, ALSA bundles a user space library for application developers who want to use driver features through an interface that is higher level than the interface provided for direct interaction with the kernel drivers ; unlike the kernel API, which tries to reflect the capabilities of the hardware directly, ALSA's user space library presents an abstraction which remains as standardized as possible across disparate underlying hardware.