The once unstoppable green machine lost its mojo at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
The great symbol of American mobility is morphing into a network device, a data-generating green machine plugged into a matrix of power grids, cloud computers and social media.
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Huddled in a damp fire-station a young man connects a laptop, a binocular-style iris scanner and a glowing green machine that records 30 points from a set of fingerprints.
Even given the Green Machine's unparallelled ability to harry and frustrate opponents with their frenetic style of play, it will almost certainly take a lot more than that to beat a well-drilled England who are looking to play a more "imaginative" and expansive style of rugby.
The finding by Gartner, the market research firm that serves as the high-technology industry's closest counsel, signals that high-tech's green hype machine is about to find another gear.
With the help of Vue brewers (which has a much higher price tag than K-cup brewers) and another espresso machine that Green Mountain plans to launch in late 2012 or early 2013, that figure could get a further boost.
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Craig Pinckney, 34, a shipping manager at a Connecticut environmental laboratory, seriously considered trading in his Alienware Area 51 tower (complete with a cyborg-green paint job) for the new Doom 3 machine, but decided he could just upgrade his processor and video card instead.
He is too green, they say, to survive the Republican attack machine.
Jarre is showing off the colorful chrome tune machine in black, white, blue, green, orange, pink, purple and yellow finishes, with a matching IR bone remote to boot.
Less than two months after Starbucks released its single-serve espresso maker, the Verismo, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has answered back, revealing its Rivo machine to the world yesterday.
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"People you wouldn't expect to put a lot of force on a machine can really crash and bash them about, " says Robert Green, a Dyson senior design engineer.
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Although the machine is not a technical tour de force, its compactness, glowing green transparent shell, absence of conventional cables and simplicity appeal to both traditional Macophiles and computer virgins.
Shutting off and on several times a day is a good way to quickly wear out your machine --and considering the nasty, ecologically unfriendly PC manufacturing process, the green thing to do is keep the one you have as long as possible.
In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
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