First, engineers can now make vastly better materials using superior processes and capabilities.

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The S3-BT speakers are based on an essential, time-honored principle: good sound depends on intelligent design and superior materials.

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There are still many sectors where Japanese firms are world leaders, based primarily on superior engineering, materials, manufacturing and quality management.

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Our commitment to the players is that nothing you can purchase with microtransactions will be mechanically superior to the materials created in-game through character activity.

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They can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments, and knowledge, and the result has often been a superior capacity for innovation.

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Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.

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We also lead the industry by reporting each product's greenhouse gas emissions on our website, and Apple products are superior in other important environmental areas not measured by EPEAT, such as removal of toxic materials.

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