The problem with flexible displays is not so much the screen but the drive electronics that switch the individual polymer pixels on and off.
With no hard drive, and a switch to turn off the wireless connection (not the fastest in the world), power can be conserved.
Otherwise, any gains it makes on the factory floor will quickly be erased as its customers drive down prices or switch to foreign suppliers.
With the Ampera he can drive 50 miles and then switch to petrol.
And last month, S4C chef Nerys Howell launched a drive to encourage families to switch to healthier food as part of a Welsh government campaign.
Helping Komatsu persuade the mine operator to switch was a new drive system that instead of the conventional mechanical axle and cogs uses rear-wheel-mounted electrical motors.
Furby also has no OFF switch, so the potential to drive parents nuts is fairly high.
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Where cities have pollution restrictions, for example, a driver could elect to drive purely on the battery, or to switch to that quieter mode in a school zone.
Sooner or later, we will drive wild fish to extinction, unless we make the switch to farmed fish.
It had a four-speed transmission and fully working transfer case, so you could switch from two- to four-wheel drive.
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If you drive 12, 000 miles a year at 15 mpg and you switch to a hybrid system getting 20 mpg (a 33% increase), you'd use 200 fewer gallons a year.
From the room that lights up when a switch is flipped to the bridge that stays up when we drive over it, we expect things to work.
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When people switch from cars to public transit, the degree to which car prices drive overall inflation would also fall.
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Rip open a Cisco switch, an Apple iPod, an Xbox 360 or any big corporate disk drive and you'll find a Marvell chip inside.
The battery switch system could also prove attractive to owners of corporate and government fleets whose vehicles drive predictable routes and face rising gasoline prices.
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