As reported in a Bloomberg story, MASS Design Group in Boston installed 24-foot Big Ass ceiling fans in the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda.
This allowed anyone to build their own windowfarm and then contribute to improving the design as part of a mass collaboration.
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Digital Forming, a related company (where Dr Mahdavi is chief technology officer), uses 3D design software to help consumers customise mass-produced products.
This is about as close to an aeronautic, glass-cockpit design as has appeared in the mass market, and it will definitely sell some cars.
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There is no way to design a product for the American mass market and then simply adapt it for the Chinese or Indian mass market.
Hillcrest also offers fully designed reference remote controls for those companies that have limited in-house design services, leveraging Hillcrest's expertise in industrial design, MEMS electronics, and mass scale manufacturing.
Such technologies include those critical to the design, manufacture and delivery of weapons of mass destruction.
The Mexican Catholic Church hired Jesus Guerrero Santos, a renowned Mexican artist from the state of Jalisco, to design the altar to be used at the Mass.
Mr. Le Meur, who said he had a "love, hate and now love" relationship with Glass, said the product could appeal to a mass audience if Google improves the design or creates a novel experience for users.
He recently designed a program for Chrysler to teach new salesmen about the complexities of four-wheel-drive Jeeps, and he is talking with Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. about a game that will help students design their own majors.
V-MODA tapped the collective intellect of artists, editors and audiophiles to design, develop and vote on the first units to go to mass production.
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Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.
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Since oven magnetrons are already mass-produced, the researchers hope to be able to design a relatively cheap and practical detector around them.
Further, as manufacturing moves toward a more information-intensive, automated, and flexible future, it is returning to the US. With new materials, new techniques and demands for mass-customization, manufacturing will increasingly rely on knowledge, design capabilities, innovation and research.
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The objective is a biological design process that enables point-of-use, on-demand, mass-customization biological manufacturing.
It was not until 2003 that Cho made it back to South Korea to set up his firm, Mass Studies, so some questioned if he was the best candidate to design South Korea's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.
Last month, workers at Agency.com, a hot Web design shop in New York with a reputation for coddling the help, got a mass e-mail from the office of boss Chan Suh that was supposed to list unused vacation time.
This means that in order to reach the mass consumers in inland areas, companies need to diversify their product portfolios and design products with fewer fancy features but stronger basic functions.
Mr. Horvath continues to design new characters, and Ms. Kim still turns them into dolls before they go into mass production.
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He says he will bring out a mass-market fragrance in a year or so, in a glass bottle he plans to design.
Following other popular L-Series phones, such as the Optimus L3, L5 and L7 that were released globally earlier this year, all L-Series phones are designed around five primary aesthetic elements: Modern Square Style for comfortable grip, Floating Mass Technology for a slimmer look, Seamless Layout for a more intuitive arrangement of keys, Harmonized Design Contrast utilizing metallic accents and Sensuous Slim Shape that naturally draws the user's attention.
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Since the smartphone was meant to be a niche product focused heavily on beautiful design and the best materials at Porsche's disposal, the P'9981 isn't going to be mass-distributed.
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