It uses the same composite-material technology to reduce weight and hence fuel consumption.
African countries have long aspired to transition from being raw material exporters to technology-based economies.
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When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the Fifth Century the effect on material culture and technology in Europe was devastating.
If genes are to be the raw material of a new technology, then it would be useful for researchers to know how many there are out there.
It is the rare product today that is more expensive to manufacture in China due to some unique technology or raw material requirement.
The approach mentioned above needs innovations and inventions in core technology areas such as material sciences, electronics, fluid mechanics, power systems and the like.
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Continued research should also find even more optimal use of necessary microbes, reduced material costs and improved function of the technology at commercial scales, OSU scientists said.
Analysts said that Futong achieved a breakthrough in the manufacturing of optical fiber preform, the core raw material for optical fiber production, and is the first enterprise in China that can make this material with the latest all-synthesis technology.
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They assumed a continuing high price for silicon and thus their technology concentrated on making that expensive material more productive.
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Both acts defied three Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from testing or using nuclear or ballistic missile technology and from importing or exporting material for these programs.
Universities are beginning to feel threatened by the privatization of higher education by fast-moving technology companies that are putting course material online and offering it at worldwide electronic campuses, Levine said.
Currency manipulation, subsidization of industry, dumping, intellectual property theft, discrimination against imports, forced technology transfer, indigenous innovation policies, raw material export restrictions, and other allegations of cheating came to define Chinese trade practices.
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His theory was that technology would eventually find a solution to any raw material shortage.
During the last quarter, Alliance increased its exposure to information technology, while selling down telecoms, industrials and material holdings.
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
He sees a tantalizing promise: generating revenue to pay his writers by mining material already available on his website, which offers essays on technology and the arts.
Technology already is being used to broadcast existing course material over the Internet, but the potential of many of the new technologies hasn't been realized yet, Levine said.
This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advanced material sciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.
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One specific material he is working on may be suitable as a replacement technology for photovoltaic cells, one that promises to be one-hundredth of the cost of existing solar cells, which can overcome whatever efficiency loss it represents.
The investigation was given a kick-start last autumn when new technology allowed a DNA profile to be built up from material found on Pauline's clothing.
Ultra High Contrast Display: Depending on material or paints affixed to the revolving rotors, the M3D display technology can achieve the highest contrast of any digital display available today.
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Dow Agro biologists have already accurately inserted genetic material into specific locations in maize and rapeseed genomes using Sangamo's technology.
At its event, Sharp shared more details of its "Igzo" technology - which stands for Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide, a compound material that is said to be more responsive to touch.
In recent tests at the company's Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol, a special liquid has been used to construct a material that is thinner than normal body armour and yet is able to stop a low-velocity bullet.
By leveraging Newport Media's advanced OFDM baseband and RF CMOS technology, the NMC1000 offers levels of performance, power consumption, and external bill of material (BOM) typically associated with the world's leading connectivity solutions providers.
Naturally, there's also a massive potential for advertisers, who we're sure would be more than keen to embrace the technology, and ably guide you from their commercial to an online outlet or additional promo material.
Based largely on inaccurate and misleading material and the distortion of data, these fabrications are then widely promulgated and cited by anti-technology NGOs as part of their concerted efforts to disparage products and processes they dislike.
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But now that information technology (IT) is taking over the world, CIOs increasingly are considered corner-office material.
Through a very unique concentrator design and the latest advances in semiconductor technology, we have developed a solar panel that requires two to three times less solar cell material than current solar panels.
With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
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