Speaking of which, the industrial designon the XVT line is understated and premium, with an anodized silver metal band surrounding the edge of the set and minimal branding.
Medis is also working with Flextronics (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ) to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) ondesign engineering for the fuel production line.
Rather than a classical design in line with the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, Gehry proposed a progressive design that he said would seize on Eisenhower's modesty.
The technique is mainly passed from fathers to children or from masters to apprentices strictly following ancient Buddhist painting books that provide instruction online and figure drawing, colour matching and pattern design.
Come summer Intel will debut a whole line of similarly low-power chips based on the Centrino laptop design to take on Opteron in all server categories.
The next step is getting prototypes into gamers hands -- she says Valve already has a production line for short runs, making a beta possible -- and iterating ondesign before launch.