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That's the concept behind Wally Island, the latest design from Wally Yachts founder Luca Bassani, who revolutionized luxury yachts with a new generation of carbon-fiber, highly mechanized sailboats that have developed a cult following among Europe's rich ( FORBES, Feb. 27).
That's the concept behind Wally Island, the latest design from Wally Yachts founder Luca Bassani, who revolutionized luxury yachts with a new generation of carbon-fiber, highly mechanized sailboats that have developed a cult following among Europe's rich ( FORBES ASIA, Feb. 27).
We have billions of new microprocessors, millions of new miles of fiber-optic glass and a vast new infrastructure of wireless communications.
Macedo, claim to have developed a new process for making the fiber, which does not infringe on any Corning patent, at one-tenth Corning's costs.
The past week also saw several remarkable advances in clean tech, starting with MIT's latest innovation, a new type of high-tech fiber that can transmit sound, light, and generate electricity.
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In 2006, the company introduced a hot beverage paper cup with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber and in 2008 it rolled out a new plastic cup that has less of an environmental impact than its original plastic cups.
And though Global billed itself as a network operator, it lacked big corporate clients and acted more like a construction company, dependent on laying new fiber to sell to carriers.
New this year are a trio of carbon fiber bags: duffel, messenger and envelope sizes completed in hand-stitched leather, palladium-finish brass accessories, hand-mounted studs and cotton lining.
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But Camarata and Dr. Kim say Memorial Hermann's social broadcast will break new ground in brain surgery live tweets by sharing the feed from Dr. Kim's fiber optic microscope to give viewers a new level of access and understanding.
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Between the old school of steel frames and new era of carbon fiber, Jordan formed a connective tissue.
Roth also wants Nortel in the undersea-fiber business in a big way, possibly creating new service providers.
Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
The BRABUS aerodynamic-enhancement concept is rounded out by the BRABUS rear spoiler lip, also available in a clear-coated carbon-fiber version, and the new rear fascia with centrally located reflector and custom cutouts for the BRABUS quad sport exhaust system.
This is made possible by a new content storage and distribution system via Comcast's extensive fiber network and enables the company to offer significantly more content in the near future, including TV series, kids content, music and other special programming.
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The new optical networking system should not be seen as a replacement for fiber-optic systems, Szelag added.
While cable firms have been winning the war for broadband subscribers, Verizon is launching fiber-optic service in New York City, a top TWC market.
Thompson's ultimate goal is to build a 5, 500-mile regional fiber network sprawling across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Installing a fiber optic cable is admittedly much less disruptive than building a new freeway, but the principle is the same.
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Some 18, 000 miles of cable and 30, 000 phone lines snake through its New York headquarters, linked to offices around the world by a fiber network that can zap data at 6.1 gigabits per second.
All that juice comes at the price of redundant network links, though -- which means the whole thing got taken offline last night when a homeless man threw a cigarette onto a mattress under Boston's Longfellow Bridge, starting a blaze that eventually melted the fiber-optic link between Boston and New York.
The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum.
This time, they used exotic materials to lower its weight, which included the then-new technique of creating carbon fiber tubes, and Kevlar -- a first for a Human Powered Aircraft (HPA).
This seems to be further evidence that Google does not just view Kansas City as a sandbox to experiment on the rollout of its 1 gigabit, fiber-to-the-home product, but a potential new area of business.
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And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.
Thompson's ultimate goal is to build a 8, 900-kilometer regional fiber network that will sprawl across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.
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And while Aaronson will sell space to long-distance carriers, he is betting a new class of customer will emerge--companies bent on creating and selling new uses for all that fiber--and that Aerie will be the low-cost provider.
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