Enter Compaq Computer, then a small Texas maker of sewing- machine-size portable computers.
Patients on the CardioWest heart, the successor to the Jarvik-7, have to wheel around a machine the size of a small refrigerator and are confined to a hospital.
Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator, using liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 300 degrees below zero and taking hours to produce a reading.
Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator that used liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 184 degrees Celsius below zero and took hours to produce a reading.
He vows to have a machine by 2012 that will decode in two hours all 20, 000 human genes that code for proteins. (This is roughly 3% of all DNA and will still be far behind Illumina, which can do all the DNA twice.) Eventually, he hopes to create a machine the size of an iPad.
In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.
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Housed in the standard Xi3 chassis that measures 4.27x3.656x3.656-inches, the X7A Modular Computer packs a real wallop, especially for a machine roughly the size of a grapefruit that draws a mere 40Watts of power.
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And we do mean hefty -- this laptop apparently tips the scales at 1.88 Kg, which puts it a touch over the four pound mark. 4.1 pounds certainly isn't shoulder busting, but it's a solid half a pound more than you'd expect from a machine of this size.
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He has shrunk the electronics dramatically, from a cart the size of a washing machine to just a computer and something the size of a DVD player.
The ATM allows banks to reduce an entire bank branch into the size of a machine.
The machine prints images at a size of 4 inches by 6 inches or 3.5 inches by 4 inches on paper that uses dye sublimation technology.
The two Grail probes, called Ebb and Flow, were each about the size of a washing machine.
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That's a full 37 percent larger than the original Replicator, but the machine itself is the same exact size.
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Just a few millionths of a millimetre in size, the minute machine resembles a ring threaded on a rod.
It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
No tool gets more use than the Zamboni-size functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, which takes neural eavesdropping to a new level.
Another photo showed the machine, tripod-mounted and about the size of an old-style projection television and housed in blue plastic.
In other words, some machine-based tutoring is approaching the effect size of real human tutoring and there is less variation than one might expect as the grain size of tutoring becomes finer.
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The result: NVIDIA's marketing machine doesn't spend much time talking about transistor size.
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Its 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and full-size drive is way snappy -- the machine boots from cold to desktop in 26 seconds (granted, it's a clean install without any third party software installed).
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Inside, in a space not much bigger than a three-car garage, was a single shaft-painting machine, a work station where clubs were cut to size and grips attached, and racks containing 40, 000 to 50, 000 shafts and 5, 000 clubheads.
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Tour participants can have their hat size measured using a 200-year-old machine that was made in France and imported to Argentina.
She's controlling a million-dollar ultrasound machine that is heating up and destroying jelly-bean-size sections of a fibroid tumor that has caused the patient in the next room serious discomfort for ten years.
My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.
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But designers soon found that the size, weight, cost and torque needed to power the machine would be too great.
The machine will be used to put markers in the body to detect the size and location of a cancer.
Symyx has developed a machine as big as a walk-in closet that can mix thimble-size quantities of chemicals and metals in parallel, in up to 1, 000 combinations per day, to test and create new materials.
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Although nowhere near the size of ITER, the Wendelstein 7-X is still a substantial machine.
As a device Natal is a thin bar about 12 inches across, with sensors that measure a room's depth, the available light and the size and motion of up to two gamers standing in front of the machine and multiple players taking turns.
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