Games, handheld

Your television, computer, handheld electronic games, and calculator are electronic devices that depend on silicon semiconductors. All have miniature electrical circuits that use silicon s properties as a semiconductor. You learned that metals generally are good conductors of electricity, nonmetals are poor conductors, and semiconductors fall in between the two extremes, but how do semiconductors work ... 

They are used in appliances including television sets, computer monitors, mobile phones, handheld video game systems, personal digital assistants, and navigation systems (e.g., Tasman Metals 2015) see also Chap. 5. 

Roman emperor Nero, who was nearsighted, watched gladiator games at the Roman Colosseum through a large handheld emerald lens centuries before the invention of spectacles. 

Platform Combination of hardware and softwrare used to play a video game examples include PC games, console games, arcade games, and handheld games. 

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