It was on this day 50 years ago when the launch of a prototype rocket known as the R-16 went seriously wrong.

五十年前的这一天，R - 16火箭原型的发射出现严重错误。

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It was the tweaker's tweaker, Richard Roberts, who saved the day, producing a prototype, in 1825, and then an even better solution in 1830.

正是Richard Roberts，巧匠中的巧匠，他挽救了时间，在1825年制造了原型机，然后在1830年做出更好的解决方案。

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The early results of Kenya's prototype village, in Sauri in western Kenya, where two-thirds of the people, Luos, live on less than $1 a day, are astonishing.

他们在肯尼亚西部的萨乌里的一个模范村落里进行了试验，那里住着的三分之二的罗部落人民每天花销还不到1美元，而初期试验结果让人惊喜不已。

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One company I spoke with, Atlassian, has an impressively granular system where employees can graduate their project from hackathon demo to a multi-day prototype, which requires sign off from coworkers, to a short-term project, which requires sign off from a manager, to a major project, which requires signoff from an executive.

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Ok, then what about the code that enables video call support in OS 3.2 or that protected engineering prototype we saw just one day before launch showing a cutout at precisely the same spot so as to not obscure whatever was underneath?

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At this stage the Airwash is a concept prototype but she believed it could one day become a commercial reality.

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