Japan's Meteorological Agency is currently testing a prototype system which detects the oh-so-subtle "P Waves" that precede the destructive "S Waves, " and alerts major operations to halt their hustle and take cover.
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Front and center were a 2013 Dodge Viper with 4G wireless from Sprint built-in and a prototype infotainment system that you can control with a whisk of your hand.
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With traditional IT models, a decision to prototype a new system generally involves the procurement and installation of expensive hardware, with the associated checks and delays that conventional purchasing requires.
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To enhance, develop and integrate technologies for a prototype platooning system such that the defined strategies can be assessed under real world scenarios.
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Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former intern at Microsoft Research, has developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that does just that, essentially by turning a person's hand and forearm into a keyboard and screen.
Interpol have already set up a prototype DNA database system which countries have only just started to add profiles to.
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In the lab Raade picks up paper cups containing globs of green and black glass, two promising mixtures that Halotechnics hopes eventually to use in a prototype energy storage system the company plans to bring online in 2015.
A.T. (People and Things) Prototype, a conceptual system of driverless vehicles that's currently on display at the Move Transportation Expo in Toronto.
MyUSA (formerly MyGov) has reimagined how citizens can interact with government, developing a prototype of an online system that allows people to more easily find and access the information and services that are right for them from across government.
MyGov will create a prototype of a streamlined online system enabling citizens to easily access the information and services from across the Federal Government.
Inspired by President Obama's call for a smarter, leaner government, innovative models of collaboration in the private sector, and groundbreaking state, local and international efforts, the US CTO, the US CIO, and the White House Director of Digital Strategy are launching myGov to rapidly prototype a streamlined and intuitive system for presenting information and accepting feedback around the needs of citizens.
Indeed, the prototype has a distance-keeping system that will brake to a standstill, and move off again when the car in front moves.
While the enhanced system is just a prototype without a commercialization schedule, it already slots into just about any car, including the University's own intelligent car prototype (not pictured here).
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The prototype system is run by a set of computer codes, rather than plant personnel.
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However with the introduction of lighter weight and more flexible plastic substrate magnetic tapes, combined with a vacuum column to control the tension that the magnetic tape experiences during use, the IBM 726 was a prototype of the modern digital tape recording system.
The firm has just successfully completed tests on a 30 kW prototype to see if its control system lets it launch, hover, generate power and land without human intervention.
The PCB is attached to the watch with a maze of wires, and allows the team to prototype new software and debug the system before commissioning the final miniature board that will go inside the shipping product.
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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