Sentence examples for breakthroughs like this from inspiring English sources
But, as one of design's most important roles has always been to translate such advances into things that could be useful or enjoyable for the rest of us, scientific breakthroughs like this one are intrinsic to design history.
Aggressive and real breakthroughs like this contradict the long-held conventional wisdom that China is simply an innovation sponge that absorbs and re-purposes inventions and ideas from the U.S. and Europe.
Full specs can be seen after the jump, but basically the "why should I care?" on this one is that breakthroughs like this mean that your next iPod portable media player could be sporting more than 100GB of storage while being smaller and weighing less.
The West is wedded to this material plane of consciousness, but there are breakthroughs, like this recent book Proof of Heaven.
While Canadian contemporaries have changed their musical strategies (like Chilly Gonzales) or made surprising breakthroughs (like Feist), Peaches has stayed making electronic rock very much within the arena of adult sexual behaviour.
The new results are a shot in the arm for gravity research, says Ronald Hellings, a physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman: "We've been waiting 30 years for a breakthrough like this".
"In terms of milestones I'm aware of, we haven't seen a breakthrough like this camera since Kubrick teamed up with NASA to shoot scenes of Barry Lyndon in candlelight," Shapson tells The Creators Project, "which, since that was 40 years ago, really says something about the significance of the territory this technology is entering".
What about breakthroughs like the discovery of gravitational waves that amounted to nothing?
Chrysler has dominated the minivan market ever since with breakthroughs like the introduction of driver's-side sliding doors in 1995.
There are important incremental advances in robots virtually every day, and occasionally major breakthroughs, like the Microsoft Kinect 3-D sensor that makes affordable indoor 3-D vision for video games a realistic target.
Other tracks fondly parody early synthesizer breakthroughs, like the wobbly "Switched-on Bach" treatment of the Baroque composer François Couperin's "Folies Françaises" and the Terry Riley homage in the 24-minute title track.
