Dr Piekarski first became interested in AR when he was looking for a subject to cover in depth during the final year of his engineering degree.

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Later on, successful buyers can simply swap their engineering units in for a final version of the 16GB or 32GB Xiaomi Phone 2 -- the latter a new addition that co-founder Lei Jun announced on Sina Weibo last Saturday (where he also cheekily asked if anyone need a 64GB flavor).

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The highly configurable frames, or mules, are slightly longer than the standard design, have many more attachment points and might not look quite the same, but all the same design and engineering expertise will be present in the final form.

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In other words I have come to the conclusion that for the stress and strain of doing Engineering work it is simply not worth the final pay after taxes and loan payments.

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The company interviewed 300 candidates to hire 18 sales representatives and 200 engineering candidates from Carnegie Mellon University to bring 10 into the final round.

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The final two episodes of the series deal with abortion and the perils of genetic engineering.

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Talking with Asus executives about their new baby, the picture emerges of a project where unusual resources were dedicated to rapid development and engineering, and unusually narrow margins and tolerances are built into the final product, in order to meet the requirements for size, weight and battery life.

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After public comments on the guidelines are reviewed, a final version is due to be published next year by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering.

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