He tells a story, for instance, of the OncoMouse:In the 1980s researchers at Harvard working with DuPont created new techniques to insert cancer-causing genes, oncogenes, into mice.
Instead she shuttles between Gatwick and a factory in northern Italy, supervising every stitch and pushing her (entirely machine-made) knits to a finer, more vibrant complexity: "I want to create new techniques in knitwear so it can look modern".
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers created new techniques, developed and applied them to solve engineering problems since two decades.
But most of all he created new techniques and textures: he roughed up the feathers to look like fur, or stitched them so close to the backing that they felt as smooth as snakeskin; he mixed them with beadwork in collages, or lacquered and bent them like armor plates.
"I have been creating new techniques for the instruments," she says, "and have written new compositions that carry the thoughts of the young generation.
He patented a technique for cutting jade into fine slices that enhance the luminosity of the stone, and created new setting techniques to replace the claws most often used to hold a stone in place.
OpenMesh's basic idea is that we could use some new techniques to create a secondary wireless Internet in countries like Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea and other repressive regimes to allow citizens to communicate freely.
This study did not aim to create new communication techniques, but rather to enhance existing evidence-based counselling methods in clinical practice and build on a theoretical basis for motivating and maintaining preventive health behaviour among patients at increased risk of CVD.
"When you're trying to create new brewing techniques and beer styles, you have to have a certain recklessness," Jim Koch, whose Boston Beer Company brews Samuel Adams, and who coined the term "extreme beer," told me.
