In the past 18 months JPMorgan Partners has surveyed 300 nano business plans and invested in only one: Optiva, a South San Francisco firm that wants to use nanotech to make thin-panel displays.
Our guts are growing, and scientists are on the case, looking for a magic bullet that will make you thin.
Their latest plan: make the thin, white subscriber identity module (SIM) card inside your phone smaller, Reuters reported Tuesday.
It uses a non-silicon material called cadmium telluride to make ultra thin solar panels while the vast majority of its competitors use silicon.
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Combined with advances in "solid state" internal storage and quicker broadband speeds that make downloads and streaming less painful, a post-DVD era could grease the skids for Apple and its competitors to make increasingly thin, light and inexpensive computers.
In addition, Lunar New Year holidays in China are expected to make for relatively thin and cautious trading over the next few days.
If the results of human trials are just as good (not a sure bet), a pill to make fat people thin--one of the holy grails for drug companies--will have been discovered.
Those who do have jobs have been stretched painfully thin to make up for understaffed organizations.
Artificial snow can make up for a thin snowfall, but it is expensive.
The strategy makes sense in the airline market where there is fierce competition and volatile energy prices make profit margins razor thin for many carriers.
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This could certainly go a ways toward democratizing the creation of 3D models -- though CAD knowledge and an artistic streak are still keys if you want to make something out of thin air.
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The idea is to make the channel as thin as possible, allowing the electric field generated by the gate to penetrate the entire thing, thus improving the control that the gate is able to exert.
The company also has plans to make a line of tablet based thin clients.
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Smart software from companies like Citrix has helped make it cheaper to maintain a thin client network.
Holding sold the premium product as a way to make a little extra in the thin-margined business of gasoline sales.
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Future research will focus on protecting them better and investigating the use of a thin porous film to make them more robust.
Narrow and Mislabeled ETFs: Like U.S. Oil, many ETFs these days are trying to create robust businesses out of thin air and have to make costly, or misleading, compromises to do it.
Nokia is flooding the markets with these WP 7.8 phones in order to make the ecosystem grow (maybe with thin profit or no profit, but it is very important, and it is worth it).
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).
This time it is the impossibly thin, flat glass used to make liquid crystal displays.
Thin films promised to be cheaper to make because they would use less materials to make solar cells that would be thinner than silicon cells.
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Wal-Mart is pursuing thin film for the promise that eventually, when production is scaled up, thin film panels will be cheaper to make than traditional ones, explains Rive.
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Thin films of such nanoparticles could be used to make digital displays with the look and feel of paper.
For instance, without Corning's flawless and thin flat glass, electronics companies couldn't make those small, sleek televisions that hang on walls.
Only that once parted from them in unexpected circumstances they seem to vanish into thin air, no matter how many calls I make.
Scale and an uncanny ability to predict commodity-price movements has allowed Glencore to make decent returns in a business where margins are wafer-thin.
Specialty butchers generally have access to rabbit and can debone the hind legs for you. (If you can't find rabbit, turkey breasts or veal or pork cutlets make fine substitutes, Mr. Stryjewski said.) Pounding the legs thin before seasoning is also essential it evens out the meat and speeds up the cooking time.
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One unpredictable feature of Parinacota is the snow formation known as penitentes, thin, icy spires that can grow several metres tall and can make progress difficult, or even impossible by blocking the usual climbing routes.
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