Also new for 2012 is a cloud-based architecture to increase the VIERA Connect IPTV platform to an unlimited number of apps, thereby cementing its reputation for creating innovative and cutting edge products and focusing on providing the consumer with the ultimate in home entertainment.
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These cutting-edge products highlight the potential of advanced manufacturing in critical national security industries, the development of materials for small businesses, and innovative technology.
The Wi-Fi standard is itself technically still a draft, so manufacturers could find their cutting-edge products too ahead of the curve if their hardware doesn't conform to the industry standard.
Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the media to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products across 29 product categories.
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Monsanto is about patents, but particularly about cutting-edge technologies and products that are by nature easy to copy.
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Customers often choose Best Buy over discount retailers with the expectation of receiving help in making more informed decisions regarding products featuring cutting-edge technology.
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No, that would be almost impossible--and rumors that Apple would introduce everything from a scheme to couple its products to cutting-edge WiMax or ultra-wideband technology proved completely unfounded.
Each of these companies is referred to frequently online as an innovator or as innovative or as cutting edge or is prized for its new products.
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Silicon Valley's been doing this since Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard built an oscilloscope for Walt Disney. (It was used in the movie Fantasia.) The births of Intel in the 1960s, Apple in the 1970s, Sun and Cisco in the 1980s and Ebay and Google in the 1990s occurred when cutting-edge technology was diligently transformed into products.
Does anyone believe those three consumer products are still at the cutting edge of high tech?
From tech gadgets to inventively designed products, it is a place hungry for cutting-edge.
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Trade with China enables our high-tech companies to stay on the cutting edge of innovation by focusing more resources on design and new breakthrough products.
It may give the stock a temporary lift, but, at the end of the day, the whole thing is about inventing new products, improving those they have, and staying on the cutting edge of new technologies.
The Cupertino, California-based company, however, has never detailed what that means: because Apple can offer the companies building cutting-edge parts capital they can get nowhere else, Apple can offer its customers products no one else can.
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