"A sophisticated appearance and practical design make our all-in-one form factor very popular with consumers, " said Irene Chan, senior business manager of consumer desktops for Acer America.

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Showpiece closets are also an answer to a minimalist design aesthetic found in contemporary homes, becoming a practical space to house bulky furniture and other items.

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The redesigned 300, introduced last year, dials back the goth froth in favor of a more practical, mature and aerodynamic design (the windshield is much more raked than before), and yet the car retains its from-a-mile-away profile: the big and bluff hood, the blingtastic grille, the pillbox roof, the chopped deck.

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Since oven magnetrons are already mass-produced, the researchers hope to be able to design a relatively cheap and practical detector around them.

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Wagner is both trained as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer which make him skilled in all practical stages of the design process.

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Its practical design lends itself to adjust the time zones through the crown, preventing the usage of a separate pusher.

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In 2005, the society ran a design workshop with students from Nottingham University to come up with alternative ideas to demolition and produced some genuinely practical and workable architectural solutions.

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