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...“Nature is quantum mechanical so, if you have a computer that worked on quantum principles, it would be mapping apples to apples,” says Bob Sutor, a researcher at IBM....
...“When I started in the 1980s, business-class seats had a mechanical leg-rest and a pair of pneumatic headphones with no screen,” Vaughan says. “You could never have imagined where we are now.”...
...The mechanical simplicity of some parts of new engines and their greater fuel efficiency provide simultaneously better and cheaper performance....
...In the 19th century, the US Supreme Court held that Samuel Morse could patent his telegraph device, but could not patent the exclusive right to exploit the electromagnetic spectrum....
...Oh, you might buy a pint of beer if Inspector Morse drinks it, but would you really wear his aftershave. And what of historical dramas?...
...It is clad in plastic composite panels which exterior designer Steve Crijns “shrink-wrapped” over the mechanicals to make the body as small as possible....
...Take, for example, the mounting of the V-twins that characterise Harleys....
...This Rotax-built V-Twin unit is much more sophisticated and powerful than the Harley-based engines, but refined it is not....
...Ideo also happens to be popular within the technology industry, having designed some of the most notable innovative products: the first laptop personal computer, Apple Computer’s first mouse and the Palm V...
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