Cambridge Biostability, with support from Britain's Department for International Development and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, an American not-for-profit group, is working on a sugar-glass version of a combined shot against five nasty childhood diseases, including diphtheria and meningitis.
Using the "refined hairline grooves" of a peacock as a template, a research team led by Professor Jay Guo has found success in creating a prototype of one such high-res display by crafting nanoscale metallic grooves on silver-plated glass.
ENGADGET: Peacock feathers form basis for reflective displays, could bring color to e-readers soon
Those that worked on the stained-glass windows never saw the steeple, but they committed their lives to making that happen.
As Philip Johnson designed his glass home, Mies van der Rohe was contemporaneously at work on his glass-walled Farnsworth House, situated outside Chicago.
There are herringbone and mahogany-accented floors, dark wood wainscoting on the walls, stained-glass skylight windows and coffered ceilings.
Innovations derived from the consultation include knee-high glass panels on the doors so that smaller theater-goers can see where they are going and a sound-proofed room so that parents with crying babies can sit and watch the show without disturbing the rest of the audience.
Observing the goings-on through the glass walls was a group of young Republicans, whom mysteriously no one involved in the recount had seen before.
On the glass half-empty side, underemployment and long-term unemployment remain problems.
FORBES: Big Job Growth in October, But What Do The Numbers Really Say?
That's 1.6 trillion bits per second, or enough capacity to let 28 million people all surf the Web at current modem speeds--on a single glass strand no thicker than a human hair.
In an "Immersion Lab" a few floors above the Business Sphere, employees test out working across time zones on wall-size video screens, and projecting business and social network information on man-size "holopanes" of glass.
On the other side of the basement Bilotta Kitchens of NewYork designed a wine cellar with a Tuscan theme, custom pine cabinetry, hand-chiseled Jerusalem gold limestone on the walls and floor and glass-and-mahogany wine racks.
Lest you get carried away with the thought, though, note that there are simpler kinds of glass--coated glass, that is--that also save on heating or cooling bills.
Like the Segway, electric bicycles still leave riders vulnerable to the gas-powered masses of steel and glass that fly by on high-speed roads, and require wearing a helmet--a deal breaker for many style-conscious commuters.
The high-flying Clippers had just one dunk, but enjoyed a 47-23 advantage on the glass.
It has stone sculptures on the walls, stained-glass windows and a carved lectern.
BBC: William Strickland: The man who gave us the turkey dinner
Eric Palmer at FiercePharma reported on Monday that the glass-containing atorvastatin tablets came from one of the most closely watched of these Ranbaxy India facilities.
The stylus itself has been fattened out and lengthened to three-quarters of the device's length, making it easier to write with and its end is now rubberized to give it more pen-like friction on the glass screen.
ENGADGET: Samsung Galaxy Note II: hands-on with the new S Pen-toting phablet (video)
Aluminum foil as glassware scrubber: To get baked-on food off a glass pan or an oven rack, use dishwashing liquid and a ball of foil in place of a steel-wool soap pad, says Mary Findley, president of the cleaning-products developer Mary Moppins.
While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
ENGADGET: Nippon Electric Glass demos liquid crystal lens and 'invisible glass' at CEATEC (video)
Combine all that with an edge-to-edge sheet of Gorilla Glass on the face and you've got a rather solid and premium-feeling device.
Atlanta was called for two more technicals because of defensive 3-second calls, got outrebounded 51-28 and still had to hear Indiana fans complain that the Pacers weren't doing enough on the glass, and were outscored 36-28 in the paint.
Still, we really liked a lot of the ideas and chose to focus on projects that could be done quickly, such as placing battery-operated lights in jars or vases in the windows instead of faux candles and filling clear-glass ornaments with confetti to hang on white tabletop trees as part of the dining-room-table centerpiece.
On the opposite shore, glass-and-steel structures of breathtaking design were cantilevered over the water, all aglow.
All along the back of the house, broken mirror-glass lay glittering on the grass.
The Thunder outrebounded them 51-44, with a 14-5 edge on the offensive glass.
America's insistence, whenever possible, on enclosing smokers in small glass-sided cubicles already protects non-smokers from both nuisance and any risk.
For the past few years, her work has focused on nanoshells -- miniscule spheres of glass wrapped in a layer of gold.
Several safety features have been included in the design, such as separate staircases for firefighters and blast-resistant glaze on the lobby glass.
Mr. Lee added that he expected there would be facial-recognition applications available on Glass in the future, possibly created by third party software developers.
He proceeded to stick the gadget on all sorts of surfaces -- glass, metal, rock, an elevator wall -- like a doctor with a stethoscope.
应用推荐