He was an early prototype of the modern trainer.
The chitarra is case in point: it's an early prototype of the pasta maker that's indigenous to Abruzzo, the mountainous region in southeastern Italy.
In his lab, four students were developing an early prototype of a printer that would allow them to create graphene-based objects with electrical "intelligence" built into them.
It took him just 10 minutes, Simon recalled, to create an early prototype of Image Atlas after the hours they spent brainstorming to conceptualize it.
But interest grew rapidly in the 19th century, when Muslims began to reinterpret them as an early prototype of the encroachments of European imperialism.
Brin was, of course, wearing an early prototype of Google Glass, a computerized device that could be worn like a pair of glasses and had a display that you could see out of the corner of your eye.
But Toyota Motor has an early prototype of a low-priced car under development, its president, Katsuaki Watanabe, said Monday, although Toyota does not expect its car to compete directly with the Nano.
When she saw an early prototype of the AirPiano being demonstrated on YouTube by its Berlin-based inventor, Omer Yosha, in 2009, she identified a new instrument to champion.
It pitched an early prototype of the truck, which looks like a cross between a car, a truck and a spaceship, as a quirky vehicle that is more for "cool dads" than construction workers.
The startup was crowdfunded on Kickstarter, and when its founders sold out, those early "investors" got zip – or at most, a T-shirt or an early prototype of the headset.
Most of the female-complaint books you've heard of have already been optioned ("I Think She's Got It," "Confessions of a Shopaholic," "Bergdorf Blondes") — and even if you haven't heard of them, Harvey Weinstein and Jerry Bruckheimer have — but some cinephiles have got their eyes on classier fare: namely, an early prototype of contemporary girlie novels, "The Dud Avocado," by Elaine Dundy.
