At Century's Standard Textile factory, a partnership with the Israeli textile company Delta Galil, 300 women sit at industrial sewing machines making 14, 000 panties and undershirts a day for major U.S. brands, including Victoria's Secret and J.

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But it could still be a while before the technology comes standard out from the factory.

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The savings are arrestingly simple: Redesigning a standard pumping loop in one factory saved 92% of the pumping power--with lower construction cost and better performance.

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Two brand new versions of the car are being built at the BMW factory at Cowley in Oxfordshire - a standard Mini and a more sporty Mini Cooper model.

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Interiors were characterized by the economical and innovative use of standard industrial products like aluminum pipe, factory lighting, and warehouse shelving with chemical and pharmaceutical glass and ceramic accessories. (You wouldn't want what your parents liked anyway.) The machine aesthetic of modernism was remade into an industrial arte povera of "found" components for the look that became known and celebrated as High Tech.

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