Millions of these virus transistors could eventually end up in MP3 players or digital cameras, speeding up image capture or file transfer.
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And for his company's twin CD-ROM portfolio of designs, Shindo presents the discs as "eyes" on the blown-up image of a face.
Mr. Schwarzenegger became an international icon through films that exploited his uber-macho, pumped-up image in both earnest ("Total Recall, " "Conan the Barbarian") and comedic roles ("Twins" and "Kindergarten Cop").
To help shore up its image, Toyota contacted Digg Feb. 1 to ask about setting up Dialogg interview, which would run on Digg's nascent question-asking platform.
But the fact that BlackBerry saw fit to glam up its image with her speaks volumes.
Locals talk about how it is the media who have helped build up her image.
To me scientist does conjure up an image of fully antiseptic lab environment, white lab coats and pipettes.
Rio has gone a long way toward cleaning up its image as one of Latin America's most violent cities.
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"The business has really cleaned up its image on this, " the official said.
Microsoft is trying to brush up its image during what may be the most perilous period of its 25-year history.
Since his arrival in August, Mr. Jenkins has embarked on a plan to overhaul Barclays's business and clean up its image.
Sent to separate prisons, Mr Sollecito later said of Miss Knox that her image continued to conjure up "the image of a nightmare".
It is just the sort of stuff that could find its way risklessly into the manifesto of any social democratic party interested in tarting up its image.
Why has Mr Davis been allowed to get away, up to now, with conjuring up an image of Los Angeles so obviously at variance with the facts?
Following the series of scandals, banks are trying to clean up their image and win back public confidence by firing the old guard and bringing in new faces.
Fuller has tried to clean up its own act recently, brushing up its image with a new website and a line of kitchen and bathroom cleaners and an expanded retailer relationship.
Chatu-mongkol has helped clean up the image of the BOT and its operations after it was tarnished for its role in the 1997 meltdown, says Bangkok Bank executive vice president Piti Sithi-Amnuai.
"They're trying to send a message to the consumer directly, without it being filtered by the media, " says Peter Koeppel, president of media consultancy Koeppel Direct, of Wal-Mart's attempts to spruce up its image.
"I once challenged a group of middle-school students to name a subject of interest to them, and I told them I could put up an image that would show their connection to the story, " he recalled.
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"For example if someone says Swedish people are literally born on skis, they are using figurative language in born on skis, but using literally is conjuring up an image of midwives delivering babies on skis - we laugh because it's a juxtaposition, " he says.
Despite an effort a year ago to spice up his image, his popularity rating is low (43%, according to Ifop, a pollster), compared with that of Mr Hollande (48%), and way behind those of popular heroes such as Bernard Kouchner (73%) or Jack Lang (67%).
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The Nokia 808 PureView is also capable of capturing a mind-boggling amount of small detail -- this is what allows it to offer up to three times lossless zoom on its 5-megapixel images, with enough pixels from a cropped selection to make up an image.
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The pictures have been picked up by much of the US media but no British newspaper has published them, although they have appeared on a political blog in the UK and the Sun mocked up an image of one of them on its front page.
The 8Mp imager provides clear and crisp image quality on par with point-and-shoot cameras, supporting up to 15 frames per second (fps) at full resolution and 1080p full HD video image up to 30fps.
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The image up top shows how I'm currently arranging stuff in Windows 8, and it's already quite effective.
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In his attempt to brighten up the monochrome image of the Victorians, Mr Gay sometimes strays into dubious territory.
Maybe that image up above indicates that this is the future, maybe not.
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Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
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