This puts different stresses on hardware and provides a unique test bed for products under development.
Commander Hadfield believes that the ISS provides the perfect test bed for developing deep space travel capabilities.
The first moments of the hurricane were exciting and provided a test bed for some exciting new electronics.
But more important, the Chinese have already constructed a test bed for one of the 2000 mph very-high efficiency trains.
Yet this initiative, intended to provide a test bed that can double as a stop-gap defensive capability, is clearly inadequate.
In addition, Masdar City will be a test bed for new technologies.
Mail Goggles is one of two dozen features to spring from Gmail Labs, a test bed for new applications that launched in June.
Lenovo can use the Chinese market as a test bed before ramping volume and entering other markets, a strategy both aggressive and prudent.
And cities around the country are vying to become Google's test bed for blazing fast one gigabit-per-second broadband trials it announced last month.
The repair shop put an engine on a test bed, attached sensors, hooked it to computers, and tried every possible combination of gas and air.
It worked by directing my son to a test bed site that automatically analyzed his friends and created six groups (all in a few seconds).
Google 's ( GOOG - news - people ) test bed for blazing fast one gigabit-per-second broadband trials it announced last month.
Several years ago, Google invited cities across America to apply to be the first Google Fiber town, the test bed for a high-speed broadband service.
Mr. CHRIS SACCA (Google): We think San Francisco can be a great test bed for the development of new applications, services, local advertising, all kinds of really cool community-based services.
Under the test bed, the new registrars will hook into Network Solutions' database in order to sell a pool of names in the .com, .net and .org domains.
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"Brooklands is a unique place which is celebrated as a test bed of invention and daring for both motor racing and aviation development, " said Stuart McLeod, head of Heritage Lottery South East.
Mali is now a test bed for the effectiveness of international action against militant Islam in Africa -- action that brings together very different capabilities and cultures and that has an ill-defined goal.
The fact that Japanese consumers are willing guinea pigs for gadgets has allowed manufacturers to use their home market successfully as a test bed for products ranging from TVs and vcrs to digital cameras and video-game consoles.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week announced that five companies, including America Online, will participate in a test bed for a new domain name registration system designed to end Network Solutions, Inc.
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It has made the country of 1.1 billion the test bed for experiments in using cell phones and DVD players as computers, putting advertising on cell phones and finding ways to make PCs more affordable through shared access.
"The automakers want a new version of the OS every fall so that they have a test bed over the winter and can offer it in their cars for the next model year, " said Keith Weintraub, product manager for Windows CE for Automotive.
Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.
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Nokia is adding to the list of global companies that is using the emerging markets as a test bed to discover new products and services suitable to those markets. ( IBM is another one where a need in India is driving global innovation for it.) It is doing this via its Ovi Life Tools, a set of mobile information and application services.
FORBES: Nokia Looks To Emerging Markets To Find New Products And Customers
The US space agency has been running the programme since 2001, using the 20m-deep Aquarius habitat as its test-bed facility.
The engine is mounted on a test-bed and attached to a computer-controlled dynamometer, which is used to apply an adjustable load.
And though the company earlier had spurned a biotech firm's proposal to jointly study Muckle-Wells, Wright convinced his bosses that the obscure disorder was the perfect test-bed for the new compound.
Beans will be turned into chocolate on Tcho's elaborate production line, which is being used as a test-bed for remote video-monitoring of industrial processes by researchers at Fuji Xerox in Palo Alto.
The characters lie, test, probe, reverse themselves, fall into bed and out of it.
Last year Ogilvy used text messaging in a test pilot with its then-client, mattress and bed manufacturer Select Comfort.
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