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.
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In fact, as the managing partner for the Business Compliance One Stop (one of the cross-agency E-gov initiatives), SBA has already demonstrated in its prototype savings of one hour per user in reporting burden.
One prototype lets ROV pilots see the area they're working in with a three-dimensional computer monitor.
Currently just one prototype antenna has been built on the site, with building work on the rest due to commence in 2008.
Just like Zuck and Edison, James Dyson prefers to invent not by theorizing but by building one prototype after another until he succeeds.
As a trial Frito-Lay wanted to install 100 boxes at high school and college campuses, but Arora and Agrawal had built only one prototype.
One prototype truck, which GM will soon deliver to the Army, is a diesel-electric hybrid that is 20% more fuel-efficient than the best diesel engines.
The lab has made six prototype devices (one of which was on-hand during our visit), and is aiming to bring them to market next year.
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Rohm's Wireless Power Transmission system also allows you to charge or power devices by placing them anywhere on the pad, rather than directly over charging positions, and it supports much greater transmission, with one prototype outputting up to 100 watts.
ENGADGET: Rohm Wireless Power Transmission system hands-on (video)
By 2003, Statkraft was testing a prototype so small that one version still sits on Skilhagen's desk.
Henson sent the money but became suspicious when the UPS (nyse: UPS - news - people ) tracking slip said the prototype weighed less than one pound.
The clincher: Once a prototype drug works against one kinase, Vertex figures it can easily tweak the compound to inhibit other siblings in the kinase family--and then attack other protein groups, as well.
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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Of course, I was driving a prototype, as opposed to one of the 500 total production units Lexus initially said it would manufacture.
We had an hour of hands-on time with a Pebble prototype, and found that one of the most impressive features is the watch's unique display.
Red Roof Inn and Motel 6 are economy brands that are hard to get a return on if you build a new one using their prototype.
He is shot and injured, failing to get his wife back, and he has to don one of the prototype cryo-suits he built for keeping injured soldiers alive.
Until then, check a side-by-side test done by the cats over at Animation World Network pitting a prototype Alexa against a RED One equipped with a new MysteriumX sensor and software.
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.
As ASUS' dual-OS prototype all-in-one is the only (sort of) tablet we've seen with roughly that many inches, we assume the company is getting paperwork done before a proper launch at CES 2013.
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We should mention that we were shooting with one of 11 prototype RX1's in existence -- though, given the quality results we obtained, it's safe to say that production RX1's will give you the same picture quality when they go on sale in December.
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Henson repeatedly called Davison Design, asking it to send back his prototype, but he says no one returned his calls.
At this stage the Airwash is a concept prototype but she believed it could one day become a commercial reality.
Nearly all of the world's carmakers are also developing fuel cells (see Prototype Proliferation), but no one has as much riding on the technology as GM.
Its presentation, led by new boss Kazuo Hirai, was the most polished of the three with the one exception of a prototype TV which was supposed to be the grand finale.
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If ASUS is keeping two OS's as per the AiO prototype, that processor caters for only one Microsoft product -- Windows RT.
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Then, on March 10, 1876, he set up one end of his crude prototype in his bedroom, and had Watson take the other end to the room next door.
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.
So far, the company has built a one-eighth-size prototype to test its design, which consists of a carbon-fibre keel, an envelope made from modern composite materials, half-a-dozen engines, a passenger compartment, and a specially lightened crane.
McGee, had developed a prototype for a Virtual Patient program, one that third and fourth year Harvard Medical students could utilize (on CD-ROM) to learn some of the details of patient care that they would not be able to pick up on rounds.
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