Although, we should stress that a huge amount of design effort has gone into making sure this vehicle stays flat on the ground.
After that failure, the re-design effort was opened up to international competition, with the nine designs - by seven architecture companies - being selected from a field of more than 400.
It asked a general internist named Tim Ferris to design the effort.
At the moment, most of that IT effort goes into manufacturing design, not outsourcing.
Of course, while handset sound design is the team's most famous effort, it's also tasked with producing the audible signals from everything from Microwaves to Washing Machines -- so perhaps your next load of clean laundry will be heralded with a three-minute guitar solo.
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According to its creator, walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors in an effort to model nature itself.
The newly launched Digital Media Education Center at Delgado Community College, for example, trains students in video game design and post-production film work in an effort develop an indigenous workforce and ensure a sustainable industry in New Orleans.
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It wouldn't surprise us to see Intel put a bit more effort into the NUC's industrial design in subsequent iterations, but it's clear that the current generation is geared toward the hobbyists that are more interested in the system's inner beauty.
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The new chips, highlighted at a big electronics tradeshow in Taiwan, represent the best effort by Intel engineers to walk the design line between a chip that uses little power and one that is powerful enough to keep users happy, especially those watching videos.
Fiores II is an effort to develop software standards that will retain a design's intended esthetic, if not its exact shape, when being altered in the engineering process.
In an effort to keep costs down and build good will, NASA is welcoming other countries to join the effort, though NASA will be doing the actual design work.
All concerned in the development of the World Trade Center site are calling the latest design the result of not a row but of a "spirited effort" between the two teams of architects.
The river restoration effort started five years ago when politicians assembled residents to help design a new master plan for the city of 188, 000 about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan.
The internet radio service has just undergone a rebirth, with a brand new white and burnt orange logo and a completely revamped design -- on web, mobile and Xbox -- in an effort to reintroduce itself to the mainstream and stave off competition from the likes of Pandora, Spotify and Rdio.
What makes this effort unique is that our colleagues at Citi Microfinance rolled up their sleeves to design a scalable savings platform to support the efficient scaling of the initiative.
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Mr Callaby's design was chosen "because it was bold, adventurous and you could see the sheer effort he'd put into creating a stand-out piece of work", said the judges from Sony Music and London-based creative agency FOAM.
So I suspect that regardless of whether various folks at Facebook actually intend to design or sell their own branded smartphone, the ultimate value for Facebook to undertake such an effort is not the phone itself.
In an effort to save smartphones from the landfill, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently patented a design for a smartphone airbag system and we fell head over heels for the Scrubba, a portable washing machine made of lightweight material that's so small it can fit in your pocket.
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