"We are grabbing technology, ripping the back off of it and reaching our hands in where we are not supposed to be," says Shannon O'Hare, who has brought his three-story Victorian mansion on wheels, one of the most prominent examples of the anachronistic style known as steampunk, to the Faire.
First, the world tries to discredit you, then the big guys grab your technology and try to sell it as their own".
Biological retinas, and their artificial counterparts, are totally asynchronous and data driven and rely on a paradigm of light acquisition radically different from most of the currently used frame-grabber technologies.
They know that to grab the future technology jobs or even just basic engineering jobs, they need to graduate the scientists and engineers.
That may dull its edge as a small biotech that can immeditately grab onto new technology and turn it into drug targets without having to support the whole weight of putting those drugs through long clinical trials.
CEO Ben Golub made it crystal clear this was more about getting the company's four employees and their understanding of developers, than it was to grab the Koality technology.
That's one of the advances that helped this expensive (but efficient) technology grab an early market share, as an under-cabinet light in a kitchen, for example.
Right off, the Journal's account emphasized that China is "grabbing clean-technology market share not because of its cheap labor. . . but through strong mandates and subsidies to build a new export industry". Ahem, those words "mandates" and "subsidies" don't come out of the free-market playbook.
It also takes some pretty advanced technology to grab data from even a few feet away.
