The technology is commercialized by Transform Solar, a Boise, Idaho-based spin-off of the semiconductor giant Micron Technology.

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Some of those ideas will be commercialized by privately held Fluidigm Corp.

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Lithium-ion battery technology, (invented by the way by an Exxon researcher in the 1980s, then commercialized by Sony) was one of the key inventions that unleashed the era of cell phones.

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J. (Dr. Grana led trials of Arimidex at Cooper.) She points out that when three months of Taxol, an injectible chemotherapy commercialized by Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), was added to patients' regimens, the improvement was also about 20%.

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Pioneer's DV-AX10 model also comes with the ability to play SuperAudio CD discs - a format developed by Sony and already commercialized that is battling with DVD Audio for the place as the successor to compact disks.

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But they were far outnumbered by those who lamented Valentine's Day as artificial, contrived and absurdly overly commercialized.

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It is no exaggeration to say that these and other innovation spawned by military money transformed the postwar economy, creating tens of millions of jobs once they were commercialized.

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Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.

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