Right now, all news we have about the PS4 is rumor, speculation, fannish hope, and a leaked photo of a controller that may or may not be a prototype.
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This FCC prototype may not be the final design, but if nothing else, it's proof that the device is evolving.
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In the beginning Cory Aquino did not seem like the prototype for a new breed of democrat, much less a trailblazing woman.
At the moment, Dr Parviz's prototype does not produce a useful image.
The agreement should also establish that the vendor who makes the prototype will not necessarily be the supplier when volumes ramp up during commercialization.
While the enhanced system is just a prototype without a commercialization schedule, it already slots into just about any car, including the University's own intelligent car prototype (not pictured here).
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This complaint, and the unusual decision not to order a prototype, will be thoroughly rehearsed as the tender makes its way through the tortuous procedures required by the German Bundestag.
Before I get into detail, allow me a short disclaimer: The hardware I played with was a prototype, not a finished production model, and the games I played with were essentially proof of concept demos, not necessarily software under development.
Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.
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That might not seem like a terribly difficult call, but after seeing ViewSonic's 150 ppi prototype at Computex, we're not so sure we'd go with the car.
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First, the cost of hardware in a prototype like this is not a good predictor of the costs of the eventual finished product.
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Originally expected to be launched in 2012, a further delay to the A350, which has not yet been built as a prototype, could put it a full six years behind Boeing's launch of its 787 Dreamliner, the model with which the A350 was expected to compete.
Just like Zuck and Edison, James Dyson prefers to invent not by theorizing but by building one prototype after another until he succeeds.
Starting on January 14th, Kill Screen will start accepting prototype submissions of playable (but not necessarily complete) games.
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But it is not yet clear how many of the many prototype and paper vehicles chasing after the prize have any chance of being part of such an industry.
We're not going to let the fact that this prototype user also seems to be reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons further shake our confidence -- though it's hard to get below zero.
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It's not your daddy's flip hybrid tablet -- it's the new dual-display laptop prototype from the fine people at Samsung (who may or may not be inspired by the ASUS TAICHI from three months earlier).
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After coming up with a working prototype, they realized that the product was not only limited in functionality, but was also much too bulky.
The phone in question was a prototype of the iPhone 4G, which had not yet been released, and the guy was a software engineer at Apple who was out celebrating his twenty-seventh birthday.
The blurry text on the left edge reads "property of Nokia not for sale, " which suggests it could be a prototype, while the presence of a Family Room live tile implies we're in the presence of Windows Phone 8 -- even if the WP logo is the old kind.
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There is, however, the slight problem of the Lumia 920 not yet shipping: unless you've been blessed with a prototype of the Windows Phone 8 device, Apple and Google are the only ones that have their latest navigation software on a phone you can actually buy.
The current prototype is an e-bike, though future models may not include pedal assist, since swapping out batteries could be a logistical nightmare for maintenance crews.
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Now, the company finally has a working prototype of its first device -- one that's not only rugged, but with both cellular and satellite connectivity to keep the more adventurous among us connected at all times.
We take a million of these small molecules--they are not drugs but the starting points for drugs--and mix each one of those prototype drugs with a protein we have in a test tube.
This morning the consortium, which claims TI, Powermat and Deutsche Telekom (among several others) as members, not only went into greater detail on its plans for the future but also brought along some prototype pads and embedded furniture to show us.
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While SolForge is expected to launch on PC and iOS, the demo will only be available on iOS. The decks sound similar to the prototype version that was featured at PAX and GenCon this year, but we have not been able to acquire full decklists at this time.
The problem with that definition, of course, is that not just anybody can measure it -- since most of us don't have an International Prototype Kilogram laying around, especially since every time the thing is picked up a few atoms rub off of it making it a little bit lighter.
What we were most interested in was all the prototype technologies on show, but all the Haier reps were from the US sales department, so not a soul could talk about the demonstrations.
Cycling did not appeal to the masses until the introduction of the pneumatic safety bicycle with a chain and sprocket drive (the prototype of the modern design).
Ok, then what about the code that enables video call support in OS 3.2 or that protected engineering prototype we saw just one day before launch showing a cutout at precisely the same spot so as to not obscure whatever was underneath?
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