Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
Nevertheless, with the ground level of app design now firmly established as a late version of Gingerbread, the stability that developers like to see is now at a level which can provide a good cross section of capabilities.
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Fuller founded WET (water entertainment technologies) Design, now of Universal City, Calif.
"The new VIZIO M-Series line-up offers consumers a better entertainment experience with a clean, industrial design that now matches the superior picture quality and great Smart TV experience we are known for, " said Matt McRae, VIZIO Chief Technology Officer.
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This crowd used to design rockets for NASA and now they design money machines for Wall Street.
In New York, the spotlight shone on the women, as they strode down the runway modeling the blue saris that they now design and tailor.
"It's terrifying, when you think about scaling and reliability, " says Vinton Cerf, who was on the Internet's original design team and now is a WorldCom senior vice president.
Volkswagen's third-generation Beetle set out to address this with a more masculine design that has now been launched as a convertible too at the Los Angeles motor show.
Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.
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Now design is not a linear process.
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But a fundamental re-think of the basic design may be necessary now if nuclear energy is to go forward.
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Insulated by design, the Masters now feels more like the rest of life.
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For years now, design has mimicked fashion, with companies churning out several new homeware collections a year the most important being Christmas.
As this GigaOm story pointed out, some traditional venture capital firms and corporate venture investors also are now offering design programs for their portfolio companies.
Strangely enough, if a designer is looking to convince a client to go with a state-of-the-art site design, they can now point in a surprising direction to Microsoft.
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In addition to thinking about the public's unceasing appetite for digital devices, Mr. Kane now must design chairs that won't crumple under the weight of an increasingly heavy population.
Some of China's supercomputers have been used to design wings for China's stealth fighter, now in test phase, and to design parts for China's first commercial jet.
The engineers now plan to design a jellyfish that can gather food on its own.
Over the generations of chips this has rather changed: Apple now does the design, Samsung just fabricates.
Companies are now vying to design the basic electronic architecture and operating systems that future network vehicles will use.
He has applied for a patent and is now hoping his design will attract offers from businesses keen to produce it.
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Indeed, the American navy is now evaluating a design called the Waveglider, made by Liquid Robotics of Sunnyvale, California, for submarine-detection work.
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"It feels to me the Board of Trustees has given up, " said Essl, 38, a Cooper graduate himself who now teaches graphic design.
Advances in the life sciences means it is now possible to design DNA on a computer screen and send the DNA code to a "bio printer" for assembly.
The project is now in the design and testing phase.
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The challenge now is to design a regulator for the finance industry that actually measures and focuses on systemic risks, rather than on the individual parts of the system.
In 1995 she set up own company, Zeynep Fadillioglu, which now employs a design team including architects, interior designers, landscape designers, textile and colour experts, industrial designers and graphic artists.
It now houses the design laboratories of Mattel, Inc.
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Now patents on design very much are available.
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Recently I have been thinking that, just as design and technology combined to make the rich creative space that is digital media today, design and technology together will now begin to help leaders navigate their competing priorities, solve complex problems, and nurture fragmented relationships.
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