It's a little better than the design method used on the Droid DNA, where the power button is completely flush and quite difficult to press, though the buttons here still gave us trouble from time to time.

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He invented a punched-card method of recording a design with the card itself being used as the method of creating the weave.

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Dr Ceder has already used the method to design a metal oxide which gives batteries a longer life.

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Alternative Organic Wine commissioned a super-green wine bottle from The Creative Method, an Australian design firm.

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British Aerospace is one company making some headway towards this with the method it uses to design fighter aircraft.

ECONOMIST: Manufacturing technology

The MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School have developed training courses covering topics such as course design, teaching techniques and the case study method.

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But Philips and Sony were only willing to rejoin if the forum used more of their technology possibly even Sony's magneto-optical recording method instead of Matsushita's phase-change design.

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Second, the delivery method is outdated and the extra hardware, including a special antenna, and design requirements increase production costs for little return in value.

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