Photos of an early version of the modern playground swing have been released in a bid to track down the oldest working models.
Brasil reports that the country will receive 50 test laptops from OLPC, making it the first nation to have actual, live, working models.
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Two Philadelphia programs, KEYSPOT and Philly Rising, employ this civic collaboration model for planning and implementation and serve as working models for innovative government.
Fully working models will be larger and, Makani hopes, be able to generate 600 kW. It hopes the cost of the power generated will initially be competitive with off-shore wind farms.
Samsung of South Korea used the CTIA Wireless 2001 trade show to display working models of the SPH-1300, which will join the chorus of phones that wear a second hat as PalmPilot.
Sadly there weren't any working models on hand, but we were able to get a good idea of what the aluminum chassis (covered in a soft-touch rubberized paint, of course) will look and feel like.
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We first heard about Observos a month ago when it became a participant in our Insert Coin semifinals, but it wasn't until the Hexagonal Research product showed up at Engadget Expand that we were able to see working models of its environmentally aware sensors.
These haven't been confirmed as pics of actual working models rather than mockups (they do seem to have a touch of the Photoshop to them), but some photos of Sony Ericsson's unreleased P910 smartphone have turned up that seem to jibe with those illustrations that leaked out a couple of months ago.
Correction: I was talking about the absence of working woman role models in the fifties and sixties.
These handsets don't exist yet, though Motorola is reportedly working on new models.
We were talking about the absence of working woman role models for girls who grew up in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Verkooijen admitted the first floors were not very efficient, and said the designers were already working on new models to improve the amount of energy captured.
Armed with more certainty about the circulation patterns of the past, scientists will be able to better test how well the climate-change models are working, MacLeod adds.
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As Nuance develops the natural language algorithms that help it detect speech, it is working towards personal language models too, tailored to what individuals themselves tend to say.
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While this will merely assist in stretching phone life, the company says it is working on more efficient models which could one day be fitted as standard to mobiles and perhaps virtually eliminate dependence on mains electricity.
Not at all, we have 70 staff in London working on standardised process models which have brought together people across London, the process changes occurring in advance of the deployment of IT, this has been going on for years in the NHS. That assertion is completely wrong.
While the microcapsule coatings will be the first self-healing product to make it to market, scientists are also working on developing more complex models.
Luring back working families to serve as role models could prove hard.
Their collectability is enhanced by the fact that they are not models, but genuine, working, industrial artefacts.
Medical students can now practise surgical techniques on 3D models and animations instead of working on cadavers or dummies.
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On the other hand, increasing numbers of schools are adopting blended-learning models that have each student working with multiple software providers within one subject.
The company is also working on continuously variable darkening (current models have only two settings) and windows that are powered entirely by self-contained solar cells.
Once a model is created, data scientists ideally will begin working with others to help test the models and set them in motion toward commercial application.
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The Administration proposes to allow existing federal programs, like the child support program, to implement models that get more men working and engaging with their children.
What about the studies that document the fact that working women who enjoy their careers and are happy about working promote stable marriage and provide wonderful role models for their children?
There were also several gesture-controlled models, but one wasn't working and the other was hosting a very basic Kinect-type game.
Those models may not hold up once people start working them or the markets shift for unpredicted reasons.
The financial services industry has models in place that serve the wealth and working class alike, and both are equally susceptible to bad advice and fraud.
"We are working closely with Citrix and NVIDIA to enable new usage models to address the needs of our workstation customers, " said Efrain Rovira, executive director of Dell Precision workstations.
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