In an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the unveiling of the new light, a top executive said the prototype LED is headed to mass production and will hit the market in 2015.

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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.

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If a prototype developed by Nokia Research and the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology ever translates to production, however, it'll be as much a part of personal phone conversations as a soft voice or a cheeky text message.

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During 1994-95, Fiat sent 290 workers and engineers from Betim to Turin to set up a pilot production line for the Palio and build a prototype.

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Lots of need to move innovations through design, product development, marketing, derivative designs, prototype production, design for manufacturing, short-run specialty items and even prolific variation creation.

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