Companies had explored similar technology for controlling video games, but building hardware controlled by brain waves still seemed like science fiction.
Maybe its time for Microsoft to start building hardware and even more tightly integrating its products, though my sense is the time for that is long past.
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That matters as India tries to improve a dismal record of building military hardware.
"Phone makers can focus on building cooler hardware and new platforms, and save 10% of their software costs" with an open source platform, asserts Rubin.
At present, it looks as if the US is building its hardware and capabilities, and the structures to deliver them, and is going to let the lawyers sort out the details afterwards.
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In the meantime, Google wants to leave the messy job of building the handset hardware to a consortium of partners.
The Ireland-based company recently opened a San Francisco office and is building up a hardware accelerator program to help startups launch in under a year.
Accordingly, Rao remains cautious about housing-related sectors such as furnishings, hardware and building materials.
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Nearly all historic efforts to reduce building energy use have focused on either human factors (change behaviors with tax incentives or regulations) or hardware (use better building materials, improve systems like the cooling and lights, etc.).
Ballmer told ReadWriteWeb recently Microsoft will now become a consumer hardware company, building its own lines of tablets and game machines.
It would erode a significant advantage iOS has over its competition right now the very specific hardware targets make building for iPhone and iPad much like building for a games console.
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The Nebula hardware appliance helps automate building a massive private cloud from thousands of inexpensive servers.
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Some may argue that we are beyond hardware and that the real building blocks are knowing how to code and how to program, but I believe that the next wave of true innovation will come from the intersection of new hardware and new software.
Just as Apple has turned the iPhone into a great starting point for software developers by building the whole widget bundling hardware and software into a coherent whole Hassan hopes researchers will do the same by finding ways to make his robots useful.
In the early 1990s the company squandered enormous resources and billions of dollars on a series of failed consumer products like the Newton PDA. Its efforts to do everything itself, building capabilities as varied as cutting-edge hardware development and volume manufacturing, led to huge losses and massive layoffs.
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Money will go towards scaling their production of hardware (built in Arizona) and building a sales and marketing team to spread the word about products.
To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.
Computer Station in Llanelli will provide the hardware and Swansea joinery company David Sparkes is building the kiosks.
The county had to evacuate its juvenile detention center when part of the hardware store's roof blew onto the building, he said.
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The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
Better funded schools are able to assemble parts they need quickly using supplies on hand, but the Bluestone team loses precious building time to travel some 30 miles to the nearest large hardware store.
Hardware startup founders and CEOs share experiences producing products, building prototypes and raising capital for their initiatives.
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As for Facebook, its upcoming solution is low-power deep-storage hardware contained within a 62, 000 square-foot building in Prineville, Oregon near its existing Beaver State data center.
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Maybe they were focused on building up a news cycle around the launch and the popularity of the hardware?
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Rumors of a Facebook phone have been swirling for years, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly denied the company was "building" a phone, saying Facebook was not interested in becoming a hardware company.
Much of the chatter revolves around the hardware, which is, after all, the main reason for building a new console.
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Windows users should have relatively simple control through an app if they just want to play, but where Fritz may shine is its open source nature: the code and hardware schematics will be available for extending support, changing the look or building a larger robot where Fritz is just one part.
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The Distribution and Retail Business segment manages home centers and shops that sell tools, hardware, daily necessities, do-it-yourself products, gardening and building materials, and pet supplies.
There used to be hundreds of IT firms around me building or reselling PCs and servers to a vast audience of willing buyers happy to pay for the hardware.
"So instead of building a phone, which seems like a desperate move, Facebook should partner with every operating system and carrier and hardware maker it can to try to embed this social platform within every mobile platform, " Blodget said.
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