However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
Cameron Kerry, general counsel of the Department of Commerce, pointed out that 93 percent of the population in the U.S. now have cell phones, and that smartphones will eclipse early generation cell phones by 2011.
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Yodobashi Camera sells everything from next generation cell phones to cameras that aren't yet available outside Japan.
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The company that wins the biggest share of the streaming media players also wins the various add-on devices and support services and a presence on next-generation cell phones and PalmPilots.
Now fast-forward to May of last year, when Venter and his team reported in Science (The Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome in Science), the successful generation of a cell directed entirely by a synthetic genome, programmed from a computer and synthesized piece by piece.
So on the handset side, they've been working overtime, producing, for instance, the world's smallest, lightest and most compact third-generation video cell phone.
As a result, neither scientists nor the FCC nor cell phone manufacturers have been able to confirm their studies based on even one generation of long-term cell phone users.
ReliOn, a fuel-cell manufacturer based in Spokane, WA and focused on emergency-generation applications, reported that one of its customers hit by Hurricane Irene had 56 cell towers with fuel cells installed for backup power.
If you are used to touch-typing on a full-sized keyboard, you'll find it cramped, but it is roomy enough for a generation weaned on text-messaging via cell phone.
Business is booming in the cell phone business because as you go from the second generation to the third generation of wireless communication, you need higher density flash to do all of these multimedia tasks in addition to the basic code storing.
Cell chips are well suited to processing streams of video and sound, and for modelling the complex three-dimensional worlds of video games, so Cell's debut will be in Sony's next-generation games console, the PlayStation 3, which is expected to contain four of the beasts.
He spent euro33 billion acquiring VoiceStream, the sixth-largest of America's big cell-phone operators, and a further euro8 billion on 3G (third generation) mobile-phone licences from European governments.
"Lots and lots of things are happening that indicate a worldwide interest, and most of the knowledgeable people are convinced that the next-generation replacement for the internal combustion engine is going to be a fuel cell, " Roan said.
While my Indonesian friends and I used to run in fields with water buffalo and goats -- (laughter) -- a new generation of Indonesians is among the most wired in the world -- connected through cell phones and social networks.
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The current versions are not capable of exploiting the leading-edge cell-phone technology known as 3G, a high-speed offering that follows the original analog and second-generation digital systems.
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