This concept first came up for me in discussions with Stanford behavior design researcher BJ Fogg and continued in my interview with Weight Watchers CEO David Kirchhoff.
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No word on any test markets just yet, but folks can apparently check out the concept first-hand at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week -- or simply head on past the break for a video.
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When the concept was first shown at a 1994 Stuttgart press conference, it looked like a Euro-toy rather than a viable America commuter car.
Ever since the first concept designs appeared on the web, the Nintendo DS was met with skepticism.
But the project's first concept is most decidedly a four-wheeler: a plug-in electric Mini powered by a lithium-ion battery.
It also hearkens back to the first concept designs for OLPC which had built-in hand cranks on their sides.
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The location of the stacks under the reading room was the concept of the first librarian, John Shaw Billings.
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The First Concept: The more something costs, the less of it you get.
The concept of crowdsourcing first gained widespread attention in an article written in 2006 by Jeff Howe for Wired Magazine.
They launched their first concept store in Pakistan also in April.
The Moody Blues, who got their start in Birmingham, England, turned out some of the first concept albums and were innovators in studio production techniques.
They shared the idea with two of their professors, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and found that the ethos of management-as-profession had been a founding concept of the first MBA course at HBS in 1908.
This "style-at-a-steal" concept launched its first hotel in Montreal in June 2008 and, due to its success, 11 others have popped up near airports around the world, from San Antonio, Texas to Bogota, Colombia.
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First of all, the esteemed British business journal The Economist has endorsed the concept, which I first wrote about nearly a year ago.
My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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But those panels have been sold only in Europe and Australia (where the concept of Pluto was first developed at a university there).
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The company is, however, assessing interest in the concept -- first revealed at CES 2012 -- by asking fans to "Like" its Facebook page.
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The concept of food security was first established by a FAO committee in 1983.
DriveNow is the first car sharing concept to focus consistently on highly-efficient premium vehicles and comprehensive service.
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Sometimes the basic concept is promising but the first mover isn't the winner.
The use of crime maps in Chicago first brought the concept to wide attention, and their use in the US has inspired British politicians.
In 2001 Linux pranksters raced pigeons against a 40-gigabytes-per-second fiber line to test a concept a puckish American scientist first coined a decade earlier:CPIP--Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.
When he first pitched the concept to Social Security officials in the mid-1980s, "They told me they couldn't even study it because Congress would go nuts, " Goodman says.
And then came the E-Bugster, quite a leap forward for VW. The company has showed off this dashing concept car several times, first in Detroit early this year and then a few months later at the Beijing Auto Show.
Panasonic first introduced its concept of connected HDTVs five years ago and in 2012 VIERA Connect1, Panasonic's proprietary IPTV platform, continues to improve its functionality by employing a cloud based technology and philosophy, allowing for an unlimited number of apps being available to the consumer.
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In his first speech accepting the concept of a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict, Netanyahu set rigid conditions for moving forward.
Recognising that global warming will make any line based on the watershed of a glacier temporary, the understanding with Austria has for the first time introduced the concept of a movable border.
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