When we are 100 yards from shore, we stop swimming, caught--by design--in a fast-moving, northwesterly riptide, buoyed by our thick wetsuits.
This seven-incher features a rugged rubberized design -- in fact the company didn't flinch when we dropped it twice during the video hands-on that you'll find after the break.
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An increase in traditional freight-train traffic was slowing up rail service, so potatoes that were top-grade when they were loaded in Idaho were mashed--and not by design--when they arrived in Philadelphia.
For example, The Delano Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay -- sister to the mod, design-driven Delano South Beach in Miami -- will renovate, re-design and re-brand the 1, 100-room tower that is currently THEhotel in late 2013.
Among other things, critics have questioned his claims that innovation in popular music has ceased, and that the creativity of Web-page design peaked in the mid-nineteen-nineties.
What's more, thanks to improvements in Trinity's design -- specifically in its tweaked Piledriver cores -- it was able to deliver this extra computing grunt while consuming less power.
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The VT60 Series achieves the ultimate in advanced design combining built-in side speakers and a built-in camera with a Full HD 3D display delivering 1080p resolution via an Infinite Black Ultra Panel.
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We first met Chul Bae Lee -- VP of LG's mobile design lab -- in Seoul last fall and were lucky to spend a few minutes with him in the company's booth at MWC.
In contrast, when Twitter launched its new re-design in September, users were given the option at first to try out the new version, but go back to the old one if they wanted to.
The interior of the three-car garage was designed by GarageMahals, a luxury custom garage design-and-building firm in Scottsdale, Ariz.
His futuristic concept is called the Nano Vent-Skin (NVS) and the design -- to wrap buildings in an organic lattice skin made up of micro wind turbines -- is radical.
Professional graphics card growth will be aided by increased adoption of computer-aided design technology in various industries and easier-to-use 3D graphics software and applications.
That was the -- I use this term facetiously -- the genius in the design of the sequester -- it was written in a way to make it terrible.
Since then, Merkoski has built a 10-person design team in a company of 18 full-time employees.
With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.
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According to Marcus Fairs, editor-in-chief of influential design magazine Dezeen, the most high-impact developments over the next decade will be primarily in the areas of manufacturing and wearable technology.
Specifically designed for hard-wearing, everyday use and portability, the new Jabra Revo Wireless, Jabra Revo corded and Jabra Vox in-ear earphones epitomize the ultimate balance in design, ease-of-use and outstanding sound quality that is expected from today's discerning music lover.
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Ten One Design, LLC, is a New York-based design firm established in 2007 to create innovative solutions for and enhance the quality of the ever-changing mobile lifestyle.
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Now, Mr. Greenfield, who runs an urban-design practice in Manhattan, is looking for a new bank.
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Mr Torvalds himself now works for Transmeta, a chip-design firm in Silicon Valley.
While this tongue-in-cheek design clearly plays on how attached we are to our mobile devices, you have to admit you kind of want one, right?
Christopher Bradley, head of 2ndEdison, a product-design outfit in Orinda, Calif.
Barbara Vanderkolk Gardner runs a flourishing interior-design business in New Jersey.
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No one knows what he did between the years 1999 to 2002, the year he started an engineering-design firm in India before contesting elections in 2004.
This all-in-one design eliminates the need for a two-speaker system with all the messy wiring, microphones and unwieldy power adaptors along with their plugs and cables.
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So if we accept that Ive is the sucessor to Jobs with the title of design-obsessive-in-chief, then looking at his own choices in wrist wear becomes relevant.
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But with higher-than-average pricing, fewer desktop options (Vaio recently switched to an all-in-one design, just like the iMac), lackluster market penetration, and a weak presence at retail, Vaio machines have yet to take off.
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EchoStar announced the re-design in a January 2008 press release and in the following months, two years after the original jury verdict of infringement, the District Court learned of the use of the modified EchoStar device.
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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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The sophisticated all-in-one design of PLAYBAR combines exposed aluminum with high performance speaker fabric for a look that's timeless, understated and because it does not require a subwoofer or speaker wire, easily fits into any room and setup.
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