The prototype system is run by a set of computer codes, rather than plant personnel.
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The prototype system can match prints taken in custody suites with those in the database 85% of the time, said Professor Allinson.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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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If the system passes all the operational testing, the prototype will be demonstrated to the USAF Security Forces and the design will be transitioned for operational use.
MyGov will create a prototype of a streamlined online system enabling citizens to easily access the information and services from across the Federal Government.
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.
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.
Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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A.T. (People and Things) Prototype, a conceptual system of driverless vehicles that's currently on display at the Move Transportation Expo in Toronto.
And several companies had concept and prototype devices that envisioned digital cameras and global positioning system expansion devices that would fit into the SD card slot.
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