The language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast-for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), where translation difficulties served as a plot device.

Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.

It can be presumed that use of a VISOR is very rare, since no other characters in the franchise have appeared with a similar enhancement, and Beverley Crusher and Katherine Pulaski, the two high-ranking doctors who served on the ship, were unfamiliar with the device.

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

Police believed he had some kind of visual aid device, as he appeared to maintain excellent awareness of the events unfurling around him despite the pitch black of night, however none was ever found.

One of the commonly held theories about the origin of the dollar sign derives it from the above personal device, which appeared on the Spanish dollar from which the American one was derived-thus, the two vertical lines on the Dollar Sign ultimately represent the Pillars of Hercules.

Such a device, according to Aristotle, is ″ contrived ″ by the poet, and thus is ″ inartistic .″ These writings appeared several centuries before Ovid's account in Metamorphoses which was adapted into Old French by the trouvère ( troubadour ) Chrétien de Troyes in the 12th century.

In January 2007 an advisory panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) did not recommend clearance for marketing of an rTMS device, stating that the device appeared to be reasonably safe but had failed to demonstrate efficacy in a study of people with major depression who had not benefitted from prior adequate treatment with oral antidepressants during their current major depressive episode.

Other Greek and Roman writers during the following centuries also mentioned it, but it was not until Apollonius of Rhodes ( middle of the 3rd century BC ) that a clear indication of its use as a cryptographic device appeared.

CRAM, or Card Random Access Memory, model 353-1, was a data storage device invented by NCR, which first appeared on their model NCR-315 mainframe computer in 1962.

In the Latin West, reference to the device appeared again in the 9th century recipe book called the Little Key of Painting Mappae clavicula.

* In the London Dome, the characters are introduced to the Babble Machines, an entertainment / propaganda device, which originally appeared in Wells ' When the Sleeper Wakes.

Data on several of the poll tapes found in the garbage did not match data on the tapes provided in public records ; many key audit items were missing, and unusual errors ( such as a date-stamps 16, 000 years in the future on one tape ) indicated the alterations appeared to be due to alterations in programming the device that produces the poll tapes.

In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.

It appeared at the same time as the E-105, and functioned identically to that device, except for the screen.

Judy carried a briefcase that he claimed contained a bomb and held what appeared to be a detonator-like device.

He appeared once again in the 2009 annual in " Reservoir Dodge ", where after discovering a Weather-Predicting device Roger and Walter sold him is fake, he tries to kill them and invites a group of other fictional villains over, like the Joker, a Dalek, a devil, and Bully Beef.

Although technically a four component electrode device, neither the term tetrode nor the tetrode valve as we know it today had yet appeared.

A description of a CRT imaging device also appeared in a patent application filed by Edvard-Gustav Schoultz in France in August 1921, and published in 1922, although a working device was not demonstrated until some years later.

The algorithm appeared in a US Patent for a hand-held, mechanical device for computing the checksum.

The fruits of this oppression appeared in the Ixian navigation device ( a substitute for living Guild Navigators ) and the Tleilaxu artificial spice, while the God Emperor himself also encouraged the Ixians by specifically ordering them to create certain technologies.

After firing several rounds from what appeared to be an unmodified Springfield, he removed the standard bolt, inserted the device, and fired several magazines at a very high rate of fire.

it incorporates an automatic knot-tying device on each spindle, and it will knot a break in the yarn in 10 seconds as well as tie in new bobbins as the running end is exhausted.

Moreover, the diabetic patient who relies on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts off his insulin intake can be committing suicide.

`` 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 ''.

The batteries on the bugging device I had put on the car were still fresh enough to send out good strong signals.

She went in to get the hamburgers, and I switched on the device again and kept the signal from Dowling's car coming in steady and clear until I saw her starting back with the hamburgers.

I turned on the device again, half fearful that I might find silence, but the buzzes came in loud and clear.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

The device consists of a series of beads on parallel wires arranged in three separate rows.

Swedish engineers Georg and Edvard Scheutz, inspired by a description of the difference engine, created a mechanical calculation device based on the design in 1853.

In fact anode polarity depends on the device type, and sometimes even in which mode it operates, as per the above electric current direction-based universal definition.

When the current through the device is reversed, the electrodes switch functions, so anode becomes cathode, while cathode becomes anode, as long as the reversed current is applied, with the exception of diodes where electrode naming is always based on the forward current direction.

The Expansion module is designed as a pass-through device that sits on top of the console and requires no system modding.

The first Soviet atomic device was tested on August 29, 1949.

A larger variation of the same design which Sakharov worked on was the 50MT Tsar Bomba of October 1961, which was the most powerful nuclear device ever exploded.

It did not depend on the AIM client and could be used with only an AIM screenname via the WebConnect feature or a dedicated SIP 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.

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.

There is the ability to opt-out of APM control on a device-by-device basis, which can be used if a driver wants to communicate directly with a hardware device.

Power management happens in two ways ; through the above mentioned function calls from the APM driver to the BIOS requesting power state changes, and automatically based on device activity.

* A signal from an engine order telegraph, a communications device used on a ship or submarine

Bluetooth is a standard wire-replacement communications protocol primarily designed for low power consumption, with a short range ( power-class-dependent, but effective ranges vary in practice ; see table below ) based on low-cost transceiver microchips in each device.

This would only have been possible by the use of some kind of buoyancy device: Ammianus Marcellinus mentions that the Cornuti regiment swam across a river floating on their shields " as on a canoe " ( 357 ).

The various services all took on a common interface device, an " i-bar " branded with the BBCi logo, which sought to emphasise the brand across different technologies by providing similar navigation.