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UCSD: New technology will extend smartphone battery life
San Diego Union Tribune
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego are creating a prototype smartphone chip using “dark silicon,” expected to be 7.5 to 11 times ...
Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery lifedomain-B

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Columbia Business Times
Peckham's river power project gains momentum
Columbia Business Times
The grants would provide funding to allow the team to test and fine-tune the design, build a prototype and eventually start privately manufacturing the ...

New Mazda design peeks at future
Montreal Gazette
Mazda's new Shinari prototype is an example of the new design direction the Japanese company is trying ...

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General Motors Australia reveals new Chevrolet Cruze hatchback
Autoblog (blog)
... one of only three facilities in the world with the capability to design and build prototype concept vehicles for exhibitions and international auto shows.

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ASU creation helps medical diagnoses in poor nations
Web Devil
The prototype could be developed into something that can be used to provide quick and easy diagnosis in nations that do not have the advanced medical ...

Back To The Future Power Laces Are Real
Pedestrian TV
A few days ago Bevin unveiled a second prototype with a few design improvements on the clunkiness of her initial model. Firstly the lacing mechanism is ...

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SEA Medical Developing Next Generation Prototype for IV Error Prevention
OneMedPlace (blog)
Once the company obtained hospital data on IV drugs, they were able to revise the design of both the sensor and the electronics. The new custom-designed ...

Singapore MIT Game Lab Interns In High Demand
Gov Monitor
The event also recapped some of the notable achievements resulting from GAMBIT's past summer game prototypes. Among these was a 2009 summer game prototype ...

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Space.com
Airbag Designer Casts Eye on NASA's Escape Ship
Space.com
So far, tests of the 700-pound prototype, using a dummy, have encouraged its developer, who plans to present his results to NASA this fall. ...

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Rail-News.com
Union Pacific Railroad Unveils Prototype AutoFlex™ Convertible
Rail-News.com
Union Pacific holds 15 patents related to the design and process that resulted in developing this rail car. Union Pacific's 18000 multi-level rail car fleet ...

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Energy Harvesting Journal
Novel thin film photovoltaic cell technology
Energy Harvesting Journal
EnSol AS has patented a novel, prototype thin film photovoltaic cell design based on nanocrystal technology. The basic cell concept has been demonstrated, ...

NASA Selects University Finalists for Inflatable Loft Competition
PR Newswire (press release)
NASA is challenging college students to design and rapidly develop prototype concepts for inflatable habitat lofts for the next generation of space ...

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Kenworth Highlights Vinyl Wrap Prototype
Truck.Net (press release)
The colorful wraps will provide a distinctive and eye-grabbing upgrade, and each design will be available with a large number of solid paint colors. ...

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Optimal Energy's Joule EV Completes Prototype Phase, Nearing Production
FavStocks (blog)
... Joule has been developed from a static display model and engineering prototype into a pre-production prototype by Zagato's Total Design Centre. ...

Sony 3D Laptop prototype shown
Pocket-lint.com
Although neither the design or technology is final, in fact the spokesperson Pocket-lint spoke to at Sony's booth said the end result would look vastly ...

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Geeky gadgets
Electric folding vehicle shrinks your carbon footprint "and" your parking bills
DVICE
Japan's recent Good Design Expo 2010 was the site for the unveiling of a design prototype called the X-Frame Folding vehicle, an innovation in urban ...
X-Frame Electric Folding Vehicle Brings New Meaning To Compact CarGeeky gadgets

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PhysOrg.com
'Dark silicon' to improve smartphone battery life
PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making ...

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msnbc.com
NASA and ATK Rocket Launch Was Successful
Currentblips
... space shuttle that was especially design for the space agency of next generation rockets, that will be useful in the future. The test of the prototype ...
NASA test fires Ares I rocket first stage in Utah. Credit: NASAOrlando Sentinel (blog)

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Scientific American (blog)
Engineering students happily deafened by Mwanga metalworkers
Scientific American (blog)
... with such limited resources, our new prototype appeared rather crude. Nevertheless, it allowed us to start imagining alternative design possibilities. ...

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Gamasutra
Feature: Applying Basic Art Practices To Game Design
Gamasutra
... the frame) shaped our first physical prototype, became requirements for the industrial design phase, and can be seen in the shipping drum controllers. ...