In 1965 he founded Research Frontiers to exploit a related expired patent of Land's.

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But the Nexus S, which joins dozens of other Android devices made by numerous manufacturers, could help boost awareness and demand for Android-powered phones, while spurring other companies to develop new handsets that exploit the software, said Charles Golvin, a mobile analyst at Forrester Research.

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The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.

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