The challenge now becomes getting it proliferated into some of the thousands of smartphone models that will be released in 2013-2014.
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Often, one or two people operate 1, 2, or 4 rapid prototyping machines and produce thousands of parts, test models, or finished products.
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Through "Video on Demand powered by Qriocity" customers can instantly rent from a growing library of thousands of Hollywood blockbuster movies across Sony's 2010 models of network-enabled BRAVIA TV, Blu-ray Disc player and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater system.
Thousands more models cram hundreds of shelves in the basement.
In the late 1950s Lillehei spearheaded the invention of several devices that would save thousands of lives--a safe, reliable bypass machine and, later, several models of pacemakers and heart valves.
The idea of new businesses seeking to tap the slumbering processing power on thousands of home PCs sounds enticing, but the models are far from proven.
Customers see models in 3D and choose and preview thousands of options, everything from the type of kitchen cabinets they want to the location of the kitchen.
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As Laffer noted in a 1971 Fortune interview, "Thousands of people work days and nights to get those other models out, " and his study was one Nixon's top advisors incorrectly felt they could understand easily.
Blu is rolling out a new interface that allows customers to view models in three dimensions and to preview thousands of options, from the location of the kitchen to the flanges in the Anderson windows.
Every year the Manchester, Vt. catalog vendor gets hundreds of thousands of names from Abacus, based on more than 20 consumer models.
Pyrolising stoves are easy to construct and available models range from the portable to industrial-scale machines costing tens of thousands of dollars.
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But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.
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Where a mid-range smart-phone would consume about 100 megabytes of data a month, more advanced models like the Apple iPhone or Motorola Droid, with fully fledged browsers and access to thousands of downloadable applications, tend to consume over 500 megabytes a month.
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Initially, car makers leased the experimental models in small numbers to celebrities who could help create buzz before selling and extending leases to thousands of other drivers nationwide.
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