Products are fully commoditized as HDTVs, Blu-ray players, sound bars and computers are well into their technology life cycles.
Now new entrants, like the Ion Torrent sequencing technology owned by Life Technology and the new types of sequencers being developed by Oxford Nanopore are fomenting more competition and driving costs down even further.
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Technologists hold a bachelor's degree in medical technology or life sciences and certification from a registered board.
Sociologists have described a technology adoption life cycle, which represents the way an invention spreads throughout a community.
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Companies must have gone public or been acquired after June 1995 to be considered, and they must be engaged in information technology or life sciences.
Dotsafe will offer participating schools filtering technology for life, as well as personalized e-mail accounts for every student, a school Web page and the guarantee that there will be no advertising on portal pages.
In recent memory, angels (much like venture capitalists) have been attracted to hot start-ups in fields such as technology or life sciences, although increasingly angels are branching out into other sectors and in niche, mission-based areas.
Their wide-ranging lists underscore what inhabitants of the Information Age should already know: Technology permeates corporate life so thoroughly that the term 'technology problem' slices too thin.
While surfing up to next level of technology, the life of this user became complicated.
As a person who sells and has worked with technology all my life I also know this.
It has become important to me to greatly simplify the physical and emotional weight of technology in my life.
In his intriguing book, Why Things Bite Back, author Edward Tenner shows how the use of technology to make life better often has unexpected and ugly consequences.
One of the buzzwords of London 2012 has been "legacy" and just as the venues and the sports they support are hoping to inspire a generation to come, so the technology will have life beyond 2012.
This is thanks first to the DNA sequencing technology introduced by 454 Life Sciences (now part of Roche), and then to the even faster, cheaper technology introduced by Illumina, which is now the dominant maker of DNA sequencing gear.
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Throughout the next decade major trends through an intermix of the life sciences and information technology will involve increasing use of biotechnological processes in understanding life, eradicating hereditary diseases, developing novel bio-industries, and furthering the uses of biomedical products in conserving the quality of life and the environment through the promotion of clean technologies.
The Mars Science Laboratory is a precursor mission to sharper technology that could do life detection, Grotzinger said.
Perhaps Lucas means for his audience to see the danger of a technology that makes human life a commodity.
And the permanence of social media and technology can be a life sentence.
To me, a decent balance of life and technology is illustrated by the way in which this column was published.
Bottom line, there are places in life where technology and human analysis are both essential, and medicine is certainly one of them.
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White House officials say he will emphasize the role technology plays in everyday life, giving people new means to tackle problems more efficiently.
The other promise of tri-dual technology relates to battery life, which is a frequent complaint among smartphone owners and an issue that has plagued some dual-core handsets.
George Gilder, who sits down next week with Steve Forbes as part of the Intelligent Investing interview series, has made a lot of good technology calls in his life.
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His last big project was a Utopian community in Florida, in which he tried to use technology to rid modern life of its concomitant ills, notably urban sprawl and intrusive motor cars.
Featuring twice the number of CUDA cores and twice the graphics memory over previous generations, these new Quadro GPUs also incorporate NVIDIA Optimus technology, maximising battery life by automatically powering the GPU only when needed.
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Whether it's a dad joining conference calls by cellphone during the family vacation, teenagers texting under the table or moms checking Facebook from the soccer sidelines, technology intrudes upon family life in most American homes.
Part of his job is writing the clear, precise notes that lay out for engineers in hundreds of companies how to use the analog components Linear Technology makes to bring life to everything from hybrid cars to digital cameras.
Easily handling the most compute intensive tasks, the LIFEBOOK S762 notebook features a magnesium-alloy cover, hard drive shock sensor, WWAN support, an HD WXGA LED backlit display, and optional NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 640M LE with NVIDIA Optimus(TM) technology for longer battery life.
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