One company I spoke with, Atlassian, has an impressively granular system where employees can graduate their project from hackathon demo to a multi-day prototype, which requires sign off from coworkers, to a short-term project, which requires sign off from a manager, to a major project, which requires signoff from an executive.
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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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At this stage the Airwash is a concept prototype but she believed it could one day become a commercial reality.
This is hardly the first time we've seen Switchblade -- it's appeared in various Razer keyboards, the original Razer Blade and even a prototype that never saw the light of day.
Alongside a huge number of speakers and sessions talking about innovation and development in the mobile world, the event also runs a Hack Day stream, where people rapidly prototype new ideas and present them to the conference as the last session.
Schultz built a prototype that allowed him to synthesize in parallel in one day 256 different materials.
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Droplet is a compact self-contained module with an integrated RGB LED, a photodiode and a CR1216 lithium coin battery -- which provides roughly one day of power in the gadget's current early prototype status.
On the day we visit Fisk he's about to launch the first prototype test of his latest invention -- an environmentally friendly cement and building structure.
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One of the highlights of the week will be a three day competition between design schools from France and the USA to create prototype lighting designs, using 3D printing as an in situ maker technology.
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