Jasper Fforde

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

British Novelist

Natalia Dyer

I do see a lot of roles that are, like, the girlfriend or the love interest or the girl next door. Maybe not totally well-rounded kinds of characters - women who are more of a plot device in a way.

American Actress

G. Willow Wilson

Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

American Writer

Jonathan Ive

We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.

English Designer

Ryan Adams

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

American Musician

Gene Robinson

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

American Clergyman

Ferdinand de Saussure

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Swiss Educator

Nancy Gibbs

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

American Journalist

Ken Auletta

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

Steve Jobs

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

American Businessman

Often refers to electronic gadgets like phones, laptops, and tablets.

Electronic Variety

Emphasizes the specialized function the item has.

Specific Use

Suggests a strategic, often clever or inventive, method.

Strategy Implication

Always connects to achieving a specific objective or solution.

Goal-Oriented

In business, a device represents the public image or branding.

Corporate Identity

A logo or emblem used for easy recognition.

Visual Symbol

In literature, it refers to a tool writers use to add depth to their work.

Literary Technique

Used to influence the reader's thoughts or emotions.

Create Impact

 and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,

The language of lying —...

 shrinking the sample space and increasing the probability of getting a particular combination. The point is that information affects probability. And conditional probability isn't just the stuff of abstract mathematical games. It pops up in the real world, as well. Computers and other devices use conditional probability

Can you solve the frog...

 Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward. Many studies suggest that, on average, posture is getting worse. So what does good posture look like? When you look at the spine from the front or the back,

The benefits of good...

 The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source. Imagine a windmill that produced the breeze it needed to keep rotating.

Why don't perpetual...

 If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations. Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible

Are you a body with a...

 of actual shrimp that they can keep each time biologists at this facility are putting a lot of Hope in the success of the turtle excluder device but they've also developed other research efforts that have boosted the ridley population like captive breeding with every healthy

Tiny Turtles Getting Big...

 adapting devices or creating solutions when what was available did it work it's something I've always embraced it's something I've carried over into my work as an occupational therapist the use of technology to help facilitate independence for individuals

Accessible fart machines...

 If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology. The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again.

Earworms: Those songs...

 ready to lift off to start a new colony if the rat gets into trouble remarkably some of the pupae are set aside to act as flotation devices to help keep the raft afloat as the water level rises further the raft

Ants Ingenious Survival...

 If you look closely at this device, it's got a switch for encryption or cleartext. Let me advance the slide, and now I'll go back. You see the difference? This is plain text. This is encrypted.

Device