The Living Machine works by mimicking one of nature's most productive ecosystems: tidal marshes.
Which is what makes them so attractive to people like Eric Lohan, who is the research manager for Worrell Water Technologies' Living Machine division.
To deal with this, the Living Machine often includes components at the end of the system that sterilize the water with ultraviolet radiation, ozone or chlorine.
If Lohan can get his anammox bacteria to behave well enough to deal with pig and cow waste, maybe the livestock too will appreciate the Living Machine's vegetation.
Writing of the Japanese comfort with robots, she allows that human-machine living may be different in a society where even sewing needles are buried.
Lillehei solved that problem with cross-circulation, in which a donor, linked to the patient by plastic hose and a simple pump, acted as a living heart-lung machine.
"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" features a down-on-his-luck time machine repairman, living in Minor Universe 31.
The current crop of billion dollar startups reveals the usual social media suspects: Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Groupon, Living Social (aka Hungry Machine Inc.), Twitter and Zynga.
If you're looking for a speedy, sturdy machine and are comfortable living in the cloud, the Pixel may be for you.
The network aims at transforming organizations in the private and public sector into learning networks of individuals creating value where the role of leaders includes the stewardship of the living rather than the management of the machine.
It is so easy to miss what is happening that even Turkle, once, falls prey to the machine and its glib metaphors of living.
By now we treat the place like we own it: we eat the yogurt her mom makes in glass cups on a warming machine, we lie on the living-room couch with our sock feet on the armrests.
This takes us back to the goal of Stoos: stewardship of living human beings, not the management of the machine or other inanimate purposes.
The celebrity making machine with its focus on interesting personalities brings celebrities into our living rooms daily.
In hopes of uncovering more about the effects of glaciers on the ocean floor, as well as details about the living creatures that inhabit said areas, UK scientists are carting the machine aboard the RSS James Clark Ross as they head for the Marguerite Bay area on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The singer, known for hits like Living Doll, will play three nights at the venue as part of his Time Machine tour, celebrating 50 years in music.
So Microsoft turned the Xbox 360 into the dominant games console, not by making a better gaming machine, but by giving people a platform for getting more out of their living room.
"I feel a device like Wii U, with its ability to continue to offer new features and that network connection and the connection to the TV and the interface, really makes it feel that it's more than just a game machine, but something that offers a lot of practical use and practical purpose in the living room, " he said.
Though others have tried to combine the TV and the PC-- Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) Destination PCs come to mind--this machine doesn't seem to be aimed at replacing the TV you already have in the living room.
The company innovates quickly: for instance, it has recently launched a tiny machine that washes little more than one change of clothing and was an instant hit in Shanghai, where living conditions are cramped but residents care about clean clothes.
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