Watches like the Stranger are often technically challenging, proof-of-concept pieces for an elite group of collectors.
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The approach is still in the proof-of-concept stage and is not yet commercially available.
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Or, before getting all excited about electric cars, show me workable electric motorcycles first as proof-of-concept.
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These assets are in early development and have not yet advanced to proof-of-concept studies in people.
Unfortunately, Claystone still feels more akin to a proof-of-concept rather than a fully functional launcher.
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At the recent CES conference, Microsoft showed off a proof-of-concept video that expands games beyond the television screen.
At this stage, EcoBot II is a "proof-of-concept" robot and travels only at roughly 10 centimeters per hour.
Hassell and Macaulay built a proof-of-concept for that spoofing attack using a fake sign-in for the Skype Android app.
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According to Graham Cluley, an underground proof-of-concept code has already been released.
Also, the proof-of-concept AcceptBit solution takes things in a different direction altogether with a trust-free payment processor.
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The current version is merely a wired proof-of-concept, but Mad Genius plans to eventually make it wireless and hit Kickstarter for funding.
We will see more and more proof-of-concept prototypes like this as the industry moves closer to realizing the benefits of eye tracking.
The following March, security firm IOActive created a proof-of-concept exploit designed to spread from meter to meter and take control of a smart grid.
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Waze generates a modicum of revenue from location based advertising, but that seems more a proof-of-concept sideshow they still have no sales team.
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His proof-of-concept was crafted from 22 webcams and some custom code, but when Kinect came out, he realized that he could use the sensor bar instead.
Blogger Michael Arrington seems to have already performed a helpful proof-of-concept by adding Mark Zuckerberg to a group supposedly representing NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association.
Of course, the implant's really just a proof-of-concept at this stage, but hopefully it won't be long before battery powered implants go the way of the dodo TouchPad.
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The Youngstown facility will serve Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and is designed to function as a proof-of-concept for an eventual network of 15 manufacturing innovation institutes around the country.
We were able to get a proof-of-concept Web app for iPhone working in less than a week, whereas a similar app for BlackBerry would have taken at least two months to build.
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Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.
For now, the researchers have created an eight-electrode proof-of-concept bracelet, but its accuracy leaves something to be desired -- it correctly identifies its wearer only 80 to 90 percent of the time, whereas fingerprint recognition has a failure rate of less than 1 in 1, 000.
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In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for DNA computing, scientists at Columbia University and the University of New Mexico have created a basic computer, called the MAYA-II, which has a molecular array of YES and AND logic gates made up of 100 DNA circuits.
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The Miss Piggy-Kermit news that you read about was never even really news because it was always part of the proof-of-concept presentation that convinced ABC to order "The Muppets, " co-created by Bob Kushell and Bill Prady, in the first place a presentation that ABC made available to the public.
The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.
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Researchers note that the only way to stay safe is to check those URLs and only visit sites that you trust (which isn't very reassuring) and "may or may not be exploitable" from Mac and PC versions of Safari -- the same vulnerability exists only they haven't written the proof-of-concept exploit to test it yet.
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Although it's currently just in the proof-of-concept, prototype stage (like, it still needs to be plugged into the wall, making it less than ideal for outdoor applications), future versions of the project will sport batteries (of course), sensors for monitoring water quality, cameras for peeping stuff, and even bacteria for breaking down pollutants (think: Exxon Valdez).
As this is a proof of concept -- and one we couldn't test out, at that -- it's unclear how well these features work, and it's unlikely that we'll ever see the prototype make it to market.
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There was no news on what the manufacturer will call the new display tech, further specifications, or even whether this was just a proof of concept -- the device was chilling in the corner of the electronics giant's innovation gallery.
Based on its size alone, Samsung clearly isn't targeting the entire gamut of photographers with its first Android model, but it's still far more than a proof of concept -- it'll ship, but it will be expensive, and while it's not likely to fit in your pocket, this camera is but the first in a long line of compacts to come.
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