The product range now includes some machine-made items, although Bissell insists that every Fabindia product is still touched by hand.
And the difference between a machine-made hull and one shaped by Saito is significant: with the right curve, a boat will glide through the sea with less resistance and burn less fuel.
What's more, a machine-made surface produces the wrong kind of friction: to do its job precisely, the plate's surface needs minute scorings, of only a few microns each, where machine oil can reside.
The open-source machine-maker has made Ubuntu PCs before, like the Gazelle and Serval laptops and the recent Sable Complete all-in-one, but none come close to the Bonobo Extreme in terms of speed and performance.
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The Rivo machine uses Lavazza-made single-serve portion packs to brew up 1.4 or 2.8 ounce espresso shots.
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Traditional German industries like cars and machine-tools have made themselves fit by shedding hundreds of thousands of workers.
The Derby site has a giant new chemical-milling machine, made in Coventry.
For years, surgeons had the technical tools to make simple repairs on the heart, but they couldn't help patients until the development of the heart-lung machine made it possible to preserve the body for more than a few minutes without a heartbeat.
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Tour participants can have their hat size measured using a 200-year-old machine that was made in France and imported to Argentina.
Firing a mixture of balls from a specially-made bowling machine he found the white balls deviated from a straight path much more than the red ones.
"Beercade uses a custom-made system that re-utilizes certain retro nostalgic arcade machine user actions for its concept, " explains McKinney Creative Technologist Adam Carroll.
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Obama said Wednesday he scored a "big victory" on Tuesday and that he was overcoming Clinton's "political machine" that made her the front-runner in every race.
The arcade's number two seller is the exquisite four-level machine called Pinball Circus, of which Williams in 1993 made only two before deciding it was too costly to mass-produce.
Professor Stephen Cox, head of the speech processing laboratory at the University of East Anglia and scientific adviser to the project, said the technology was made possible due to advances in machine-learning algorithms.
In New South Wales a party machine run by deal-makers and union power-brokers has made this impossible.
There are no plans to mass-produce the machine, but instructions and source code are being made available.
However, they became convinced that their customers would love their hard ice cream much more in its softer, just- made incarnation, freshly decanted from the ice cream machine.
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Some of these are then fed into a prototyping machine, made by Objet of Israel, that can produce a 3-D model in lightweight plastic in minutes.
Nor is it as granulated or icy as granite, the Italian, semi-frozen flavored ice that can be made without an ice cream machine.
The Darpa-supported team instead moved their machine by using an "artificial muscle" made out of nickel and titanium wire designed to stretch and contract with heat.
Also on view are four of his recent "Extrusion" benches, made without nuts and bolts by squeezing red-hot aluminum out of a machine as one might pinch toothpaste out of a plastic tube.
We all in the band know how to use a fairly famous drum machine called the MPC, made by Akai, which actually these days, quite an old-school way of writing beats and rhythms if you're not using a live drummer.
The machine is made of magnesium through and through, with pressed metal on the lid and a die-cast variety on the bottom.
Inside the machine there's a Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people )-made 1-gigahertz PowerPC processor, an Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) GeForce4 440 Go graphics processor and a 60-gigabyte hard drive.
This single work, made up of 53 low-lying pieces, was fashioned by a computer-directed machine extruding coils of cement.
In Southwold, Suffolk, few can resist the Whack a Banker machine or the Booth of Truth at the Under The Pier Show, a hair-brained arcade of home-made contraptions, mad cap games and exhibits that is the brainchild of local scientist and inventor Tim Hunkin.
The last one to be made in a factory in Britain rolled off a production line in Wrexham - 183 years after a machine was patented as the first typewriter.
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