By 1997 or 1998, Japan's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications predicts, the system will be in practical use.
In the practical use case of a connected home, bandwidth will always be limited, but intelligent network management helps address this.
There's certainly no shortage of companies working to make electronics of all sorts more energy efficient, but NEC and Rohm Co now say that they're on the verge of a breakthrough that could change things in a big way, and we could possibly see it in "practical use" by the end of this year.
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"I feel a device like Wii U, with its ability to continue to offer new features and that network connection and the connection to the TV and the interface, really makes it feel that it's more than just a game machine, but something that offers a lot of practical use and practical purpose in the living room, " he said.
Gambarota believed there were ways human power could be brought into practical use in the home.
However, NIR only came to practical use in the 1950s as an analytical device.
As a long-standing proponent of marketing integration I can speak to the fact that many marketers still have difficulty in putting it into practical use, including many chief marketing officers which was the basis of my piece aptly titled The Eleven Letter Word That Continues To Elude All CMOs And Marketers.
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Environmental and regulatory issues abound, not to mention the need for billions in new infrastructure to make practical use of the finds.
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Knowledge of history can be of real practical use, even in business.
When embryonic stem cells were a highly controversial topic at the beginning of the decade, some companies offered to store fat cells from liposuction for a fee after it was discovered that there were stem cells in the fat, but their practical use had not been established.
The primary purpose is to eventually use the technology in new forms of "minimally invasive surgery, " and although the microhand is likely years away from practical use, they're already in cahoots with robotic firm to develop a "slightly larger" rendition with an onboard camera for live action video feeds.
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In 2008, Dr Cummer first described the theory of acoustic cloaking in an article in Physical Review Letters, and earlier this year a group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrated the first practical use of the theory in an article in the same journal.
As Warren Buffett, ceo of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) recently wrote in his annual letter to shareholders, gold has limited practical use and is only a buffer against disaster if someone else wants to pay more for it than you did.
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Interestingly, another document produced for the military's use in May 2011 shows why, as a practical matter, that can't happen.
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The key recommendations on practical solutions for the use of accessible ICTs contained in the report target mainly teachers, policy makers and administrators.
The invention of an LED goes back to the 1920s but the first LED for practical use was invented by GE scientist Nick Holonyack in 1962.
As a country, we have to be more rigorous in separating energy the hype from the practical solutions that can improve our use of valuable energy resources.
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The practical problem in implementing this transaction was that you are not supposed to use the corporate cash to pay off the shareholders.
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This will be illustrated through specific practical examples of the use of the tools to facilitate change in different regions of the world.
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The latter also imposed legislative language that will make it difficult, if not as a practical matter impossible, to use the money they did approve in such a way as actually to develop and deploy effective anti-missile systems.
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As a practical matter, rigorous national security reviews of sensitive dual-use technologies often cannot be performed in so short a period of time.
While Mr. Obama did not use those exact words in his Muslim Outreach 2.0 speech, that was surely the practical effect of his effusively depicting the so-called "Arab Spring" as a welcome expression of democratic sentiment throughout the region.
However Anna Brychan, director of head teachers' union NAHT Cymru, warned that her members were concerned about the practical difficulties involved with the proposals, despite their "great eagerness to make maximum use of new technologies in education".
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