Finally, the fact remains that Nintendo is simply not that interested in producing an expensive, high-power machine.

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Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of an 8-foot-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.

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Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of a 2.5-meter-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.

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Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).

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