The device relies on the kind of off-the-shelf parts you might find in a smart phone or other piece of consumer electronics.
Kitmakers from around the world want to provide the off-the-shelf and made-to-order parts you need to make your own creations, products, and inventions.
The commercial off-the-shelf software solution includes a three-year commitment by Microsoft Consulting Services for technical support during the ship's software design, development and deployment.
He realised that some of the off-the-shelf equipment used by serious amateurs is sensitive enough to measure the light drop caused by distant transits.
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Here's the off-the-shelf Samsung phone fitted with the UWB chipset.
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Custom-made servos cost many times the price of off-the-shelf ones.
If the United States goes along with the agreement, will the FS-X deal establish a precedent that will embolden the Japanese to move away from future off-the-shelf purchases in favor of codevelopment and coproduction arrangements?
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Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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So, for example, he says, the company has an off-the-shelf data warehouse tool.
Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application?
They fed the pictures into an off-the-shelf face-recognition programme that compared them with 280, 000 images they had found by using a search engine to identify Facebook profiles from the same city.
But is the idea of altering an off-the-shelf camera to penetrate clothing real?
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Otherwise, it warned, the emphasis on cheaper "off-the-shelf procurement" from other nations could come to threaten the UK's ability to defend itself.
But that first requires the service to find an off-the-shelf radio that can carry the necessary signals to enable unfettered communication between diverse radios and users.
As the military increasingly turns to commercial off- the-shelf technologies, this trend will only grow.
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Another huge change, says Mr Bach, is that the original Xbox was built from off-the-shelf parts.
As opposed to the near-term improvement an off-the-shelf procurement of modern U.S. aircraft could have afforded, the FS-X will not enter service until the late 1990s.
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Soldiers can operate the devices' touchscreens using special off-the-shelf gloves.
Not only will the mission test how commercial, off-the-shelf tech can survive in the vacuum and conduct experiments, but it'll squeeze in some fun courtesy of apps developed by winners of a competition held last year.
Both exploits take advantage of the Blackhole exploit kit, an off-the-shelf hacking tool that was updated last month to prey on the Java vulnerability, such that users who run the Java plug-in can have their PC entirely compromised via their browser when they visit an infected site.
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The plan incorporates capabilities to utilize commercial off-the-shelf products such as an Apple iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy S III.
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Othman believed the second software to be such an off-the-shelf product because of its amateurish construction, but the California expert disagrees.
So Mr Johnson is now including the savings in running costs, to say the new bus is cheaper than an off-the-shelf hybrid.
He added that the prototype had been built using existing off-the-shelf components, but there was scope to improve the equipment with customised parts.
The inventors couldn't find an off-the-shelf lens big enough to project an image of an automobile, so they had to build one--out of holographic polymer--to do it.
Sure, the US Army could continue to develop expensive proprietary gadgets for use in the field, or they could make the switch to (relatively) inexpensive off-the-shelf smartphones.
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Is Japan willing to consider offsetting the codevelopment arrangement on the FS-X with a substantial off-the-shelf defense purchase to demonstrate Japanese willingness to buy American when it is sensible to do so?
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The merits of urging the packaging of the FS-X project with a major off-the-shelf purchase from the United States should also be seriously examined.
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Such technologies already exist (Aerovironment plans to fit the next version of Black Widow with an off-the-shelf camera around 2cm long), but better versions of it should soon be available.
Akamai engineers in Cambridge, Mass. are constantly preparing newer, faster servers the size of pizza boxes--cheap off-the-shelf machines embedded with special Akamai DNA--and deploying them to the farthest edges of the network.
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