In April 2004 E Ink's technology was approved for mass production of Sony's electronic books.
They came up with an approach they believed could be used for mass production.
But it is enough, Dr Chen reckons, for the process to be worth considering for mass production.
Samsung's 8Mp S5K3H2 is sampling now and is scheduled for mass production in the second quarter of this year.
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But such technology, which was shown in public earlier this month in Las Vegas, will still need more time for mass production.
As we all recognize, the Industrial Age made us smarter, wiser and faster, giving us the manufacturing innovation required for mass production, global domination and profit.
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Officials at the component suppliers, who declined to be named, said this week that Apple has told them to prepare for mass production of the smaller tablet.
Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.
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"We have been, on a number of occasions, preparing for mass production and in a room and realized we are talking a little too loud about the virtues of something, " he said.
When mechanical engineer James Parks joined Nektar in 1994, employees at the company were hand-filling blister packs with an early version of insulin powder at a rate of 100 per person per day, too slow for mass production.
It seems like this technology will not be available for mass production for a couple years yet, so the first generation iWatch may look more like a souped-up iPod Nano or a slimmed-down screen iPhone on a strap than a snap bracelet.
Freespace Sensor Modules are used by engineers to add inertial motion control to a product without having to learn about motion sensing or MEMS. These compact modules, the smallest of which is 9mm x 19mm x 2.5mm, are pre-calibrated for mass production, provide a well-documented API for interpreting motion, and provide data such as cursor position, linear acceleration, angular position, and angular velocity to enable the creation of novel applications.
He says he is in discussions with several large corporations for the mass production and distribution of the technology pending the NSF validation.
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That union, says Esteban Kolsky of Gartner, a consultancy, is now doing for the service sector what mass production once did for manufacturing: automating processes and significantly cutting costs.
As the automobile transformed from a novelty for the wealthy to mass production the proverbial buggy whip industry disappeared.
The move to mass production for commercial space products has already begun.
The OV5645 comes in CSP and RW packaging options and is now available for sampling, with mass production expected to begin in the first quarter of 2013.
We might think of manufacturing computers here, or smartphones, or even Henry Ford with the mass production line for automobiles.
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More than almost any other functioning industrial site in Britain, Dagenham evokes a nostalgia for the age of mass-production and metal bashing.
The company plans to begin investment in the line, which will focus on WRGB OLED evaporation process, in the first quarter of 2013, with mass production scheduled for the first half of 2014 at a monthly capacity of 26, 000 input sheets.
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The mass production techniques used for liquors like vodka and gin, she feels, have taken away some of the beauty of native tequila.
But any new solar technology takes a lot of time and money to develop and bring to mass production, and producing it in large volumes is crucial for lowering production costs.
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In its seven-year run, the Aibo was the first mass-production cheap platform for robotics research.
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Adding to Sharp's woes are reports that it has fallen behind in the mass-production of screens for Apple's new iPhone 5, expected to launch in September.
The craft is still in the developmental stages, though Korean officials claim it'll be ready for primetime in March 2012, with mass production less than three years away.
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One of the big goals of asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources is the mass production of space telescopes for both its prospecting missions and to sell to customers.
Of course, the big boys like Trek and Giant can't be faulted here, the nature of mass production makes it impossible for them to finely tune a frame for each individual.
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Preproduction units will be released for public tests in October, followed by mass production.
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This is the mass production that China is famed for, with the company today employing a total of 1, 500 people and making around seven million pairs of scissors and three million knives a year.
This could be possible as there is tremendous potential for economies of scale, both in terms of mass production, which reduces the cost of each turbine, and in terms of the construction and management of vast wind farms offshore where there are few limits on available acreages.
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