The US space agency has been running the programme since 2001, using the 20m-deep Aquarius habitat as its test-bed facility.
The engine is mounted on a test-bed and attached to a computer-controlled dynamometer, which is used to apply an adjustable load.
And though the company earlier had spurned a biotech firm's proposal to jointly study Muckle-Wells, Wright convinced his bosses that the obscure disorder was the perfect test-bed for the new compound.
Beans will be turned into chocolate on Tcho's elaborate production line, which is being used as a test-bed for remote video-monitoring of industrial processes by researchers at Fuji Xerox in Palo Alto.
Google 's ( GOOG - news - people ) test bed for blazing fast one gigabit-per-second broadband trials it announced last month.
Several years ago, Google invited cities across America to apply to be the first Google Fiber town, the test bed for a high-speed broadband service.
And cities around the country are vying to become Google's test bed for blazing fast one gigabit-per-second broadband trials it announced last month.
Last year Ogilvy used text messaging in a test pilot with its then-client, mattress and bed manufacturer Select Comfort.
Yet this initiative, intended to provide a test bed that can double as a stop-gap defensive capability, is clearly inadequate.
But more important, the Chinese have already constructed a test bed for one of the 2000 mph very-high efficiency trains.
Mali is now a test bed for the effectiveness of international action against militant Islam in Africa -- action that brings together very different capabilities and cultures and that has an ill-defined goal.
The fact that Japanese consumers are willing guinea pigs for gadgets has allowed manufacturers to use their home market successfully as a test bed for products ranging from TVs and vcrs to digital cameras and video-game consoles.
Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.
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Mr. CHRIS SACCA (Google): We think San Francisco can be a great test bed for the development of new applications, services, local advertising, all kinds of really cool community-based services.
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