Hong says RoboCup teaches students about machine design and fabrication, as well as mechanics, dynamics and controls.
Gates slammed the machine design, including its lack of a hard drive--though some techies suspected he was vexed by the computers' use of Linux, which rivals Microsoft 's Windows operating systems.
The Core is basically a scaled-down version of the original Arcade Cabinet, retaining the key elements, with the bulk of the arcade machine design traded in for a more streamlined aesthetic that can be tossed into a backpack with ease.
Gates slammed the machine design, including its lack of a hard drive--though some techies suspected he was vexed by the computers' use of Linux, which rivals Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows operating systems.
The LF-CC's interior hints at the progressive luxury of a future Lexus model cabin layout, and represents a further development of the company's HMI (Human Machine Interface) design philosophy.
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After seven years of tinkering, they arrived at a machine with a deceptively simple design: Solar Impulse with its sleek, clean lines, white-gloss finish and rakishly angled 208-foot wings (bent to increase the plane's stability) resembles what you might get had Steve Jobs reimagined a child's balsa-wood glider in giant form.
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Surely it created engineering and manufacturing jobs to design and produce the machine, right?
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Okano's craftsmen figure out how to do that for each design and then build a machine capable of pressing the casings automatically.
Each has a unique design, so a systematic machine-related error is unlikely.
Dundee technology firm i-design, an innovator in cash machine marketing, is being taken over by Cardtronics.
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Orion itself is an amazing machine, but the gear being used to design, build and test it is equally impressive.
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The design principles of a Man-Machine framework that truly respects human virtuosity can be explained by the Three Levels of Cognition developed by Prof.
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When it came to choosing a tabulating machine for the 1890 census, Hollerith's design was one of three contenders.
The S5 feels durable, but lacks the design flair you'd expect from a premium machine.
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We could go on, but you get the point: the S5 feels durable, but lacks the design flair you'd expect from a premium machine.
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Unlike the lush, elaborate, French-inspired, high Deco romanticism of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State's massing and design is a more simplified, commercial evocation of the Machine Age, a favorite theme of the time.
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The idea is the brainchild of two Singaporean design students who won top honors at the recent International Electrolux Design Lab awards in Stockholm for their "Airwash" washing machine.
But this scale-out architecture represents a new design center, and there is much work still left to harness this machine and make it usable for the enterprise.
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But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine.
Dr Swade, agreed that this was the correct approach and said a virtual recreation of the machine could solve "95% of problems" and allow them to use computer to design the thousands of individual parts needed to make the behemoth.
"People you wouldn't expect to put a lot of force on a machine can really crash and bash them about, " says Robert Green, a Dyson senior design engineer.
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Ballot-box hanky-panky is also much harder in an age of machine voting (the controversy in 2000 was not over intentional fraud, but counting rules and ballot design).
But the design is smart, it pulses while animating the display, making you feel like the machine is an intelligent robot butler, making the soda perfect just for you.
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Dundee-based firm i-design has secured exclusive rights to sell advertising space across supermarket chain Asda's entire cash machine network.
In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
In this setting, moreover, finance takes on a surprisingly artistic quality whether it be the colourful ornateness of 19th-century railway bonds or design classics such as the Quotron trading terminal or much older Brunsviga-Midget System Trinks counting machine.
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Perhaps more importantly, when he tried to use the machine himself, Moggridge was exasperated with the difficulty and decided to take the human factor into account for software design.
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