The purpose of building a prototype is to test the prototype and refine the prototype.
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Then they refine the model based on how the prototype performs, and they modify the prototype as needed.
Fujitsu intelligent phone prototype This speedy quad-core smartphone prototype has a 13.1-megapixel camera on board and is waterproof like its Japanese compatriot the Panasonic Eluga.
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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Once his concept is approved, the Scout can begin to build a prototype of his game.
Stratasys makes boxy machines that turn digital drawings into life-size prototype parts within a few hours.
Up until now, prototype OLED panels have been limited to a max size of about 40-inches.
Fay oversaw the product go from prototype all the way through the first clinical trials.
Diffrient, now 75, happened to have a crude prototype for a new office chair.
Samsung has been testing a prototype Experience boutique in a suburban Dallas Best Buy store.
The smartphone prototype is LG's first full-touch CDMA device with built-in Mobile DTV circuitry.
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Vision Robotics, a company based in San Diego, has demonstrated a prototype vine-pruning robot.
He added that he had shown his prototype to Apple designers around that time.
For every interesting gadget or prototype, there were dozens of small booths hawking digital detritus.
He showed off a prototype last month at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
While choosing a leather supplier, the owners created a bag prototype using material from every company.
The technology is a prototype so it's still a bit rough around the edges.
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Coders Jonathan Neumann and Rob Parker came up with a prototype using a Bluetooth wireless connection.
The dedicated folks at webOS Nation have managed to get their hands on a functional prototype.
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It based the prototype on rumors that have been, like usual, circulating on blogs.
And Radical Entertainment is preparing to launch Prototype 2 across consoles in early 2012.
In the meantime, we're admittedly quite taken with what this prototype is capable of.
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The MyOrigo phone prototype is smaller than the Treo and larger than the x200.
Dorotheum's catalog cover features a prototype of an armchair designed by architect Walter E.
Unfortunately, the settings screen also reinforces the notion of it being --at best -- a prototype.
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Instead, the prototype rose a short distance, rolled over and slammed into the ground.
However, the prosecutors will file criminal charges against two men who obtained the prototype last year.
The miniature 80-key keyboard of the working prototype v5 that we tapped upon was seriously springy.
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Jim McKelvey created a prototype for the multi-billion dollar credit card processor called Square at TechShop.
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Further down the road, Nokia will unveil its Kinetic prototype as a real product.
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