Though many are still working out the kinks, software is making machines and devices smarter every year.
The poor are also victims of inefficiency - they use inefficient sewing machines, bangle making machines and power looms.
By skewering her for seeking an alternative method to motherhood, are we in turn reducing women to baby-making machines?
You can buy lots of other anti-bacterial products too: tea towels, copper panels, toothpaste, ice-making machines, pyjamas and underwear.
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Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.
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Humans are sense making machines, we like to understand how things work, we have to get to the bottom of things.
Ross made International Steel Group into one of the largest U.S. steel producers by acquiring embattled mills out of bankruptcy and whipping them into efficient money-making machines.
Because, quietly and without fanfare, companies like the Oystar Group are making machines that fill tubes faster than before, requiring less shifts of people to complete an order.
SodaStream International is a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of at-home carbonated beverage-making machines and associated products that enable tap water to be turned into carbonated soft drinks and sparkling water.
Italy's ferocious exporters, which tend to dominate micro-markets for such things as buttons and cigarette-making machines, do not terribly care how the Italian economy is growing: theirs is a world market.
Warner Brothers exclusive backing of the Blu-Ray high-definition DVD format has not only warmed the hearts of Sony investors, it's good news for the companies that produce the expensive disc-making machines.
That's because DVD-makers like Germany's Bertelsmann or Canada's Cinram have to buy whole new machines for producing Blu-Ray discs, but they only have to upgrade their current disc-making machines to make HD DVDs.
It is thanks to companies like these that Italy still exports more food-processing machines, washing machines, fridges, shoes and shoe-making machines, ski boots, ceramic tiles, jewels, woollen and silk clothes, radiators and boilers, optical frames and neck-ties than any other country in the world.
Life Technologies, formed by the merger last year of life science tools companies Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, has an estimated 65% of the market for PCR machines used for research and has licensed its technology to 12 other companies making the machines.
But these added to the bulk of the machines making them less practical for real-world uses.
From an engineering perspective, when it comes to making micro-machines, nanotechnology has a distinct advantage over electromagnetic motors.
It found that 80 percent of the five-axis machine tools they sold in the United States between 2005 and 2008 were imported, with Japanese and German machines making up the majority of models.
At Century's Standard Textile factory, a partnership with the Israeli textile company Delta Galil, 300 women sit at industrial sewing machines making 14, 000 panties and undershirts a day for major U.S. brands, including Victoria's Secret and J.
They will be purchased on an as-needed basis off websites and will run on a variety of operating-system-agnostic machines, making Windows less important.
American laptop users are also doubly inclined to download music and movies to corporate machines, making them more likely to unwittingly install hidden malicious software.
Unlike a typical bot-net, which hijacks PCs with malicious software, that network of unwitting proxies wouldn't leave anything behind on victims' machines, making the attack harder to trace.
The suits in Tokyo were so fed up with the company's low-rent reputation that they decided to launch a premium line to prove Toshiba is indeed capable of making high-end machines.
For instance, China has some 200 motorcycle manufacturers, but only a dozen are capable of making 100, 000 machines a year the size that will produce the sort of economies of scale generally expected in that industry.
Before long Drumm read a story about Makerbot, a startup based in New York making affordable 3D printing machines, and within months he had saved up enough money to buy his own 3D printer.
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They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.
D. level climate scientists that work at Columbia University's Earth Institute and even if you do not understand the physics of climate change or the computer models predicting global warming, common sense alone might lead you to think that human beings and their machines are making the planet warmer.
Will we be crafting messages that appeal to machines that are making recommendations, or even decisions, for consumers?
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