To test the idea, he and an international consortium of his colleagues have built a ground-based prototype.
Conceptually, the system appears to be very similar to the Social Bicycles model that we wrote about earlier this summer as part of our Insert Coin series, though that US-based prototype includes a u-style lock, for securing the bike to a post or tree.
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It based the prototype on rumors that have been, like usual, circulating on blogs.
Then they refine the model based on how the prototype performs, and they modify the prototype as needed.
Currently, intensive evaluations of prototype NV200-based electric vehicles are being carried out in Europe.
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While we won't make too many judgments on the feel and design based on a non-functioning prototype, we actually found the Max easier to hold and reach all corners of the screen with a single hand than the Nexus or the Note.
Intel last summer said it had developed a research prototype of a silicon-based transceiver with four data channels that each send data at 12.5 gigabits a second.
Vision Robotics, a company based in San Diego, has demonstrated a prototype vine-pruning robot.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the chain is testing a prototype store near its Minnesota-based headquarters that mimics signature Apple features such as its Genius Bar.
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In December a company called Blue H Technologies, based in Oosterhout in the Netherlands, placed a half-size prototype turbine about 20km off the coast of southern Italy in water 108 metres deep.
Data scientists, farmers and policy experts traveled in from all over the country to work with New York-based designers, developers and entrepreneurs to break down these challenges and prototype disruptive new solutions.
The Joint European Torus (JET) is located in Britain, which is the largest such facility in the world and may be regarded as a prototype for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) based in France.
While no cellulose-based products are currently used in Ford vehicles, the company tested a prototype armrest and determined that there are multiple possible applications for cellulose use in both the interior and exterior.
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