Enron used Wall Street magic to transform energy supplies into financial instruments that could be traded online like stocks and bonds.
To fund their project they won consulting projects – one of which was to design a set of musical instruments that could be controlled by robots, for Will.I.Am.
"Eventually, we can also design hand-held instruments that could potentially sniff out corpses at crime scenes by picking up the aromatic compounds of decay odor".
One of his proposals was a modest tax on trades of financial instruments that could generate $48 billion or more annually from the G-20 countries.
With instruments that could tell you what time it is without your having so much as to look out the window, time became something abstract and absolute.
In the mid-2000s, designedamarina designed the first instruments "that could determine the properties of the sediments without destroying them in the process," he said.
If one would try to protect oneself against things going wrong, do not create instruments that could all too easily go wrong in the wrong hands - and very, very wrong at that.
After Mount St. Helens, scientists from the United States Geological Survey began devising portable volcano monitoring instruments that could be set up together in 70-pound early-warning systems.
He was commissioned to design a pouch for sterile medical instruments that could be opened without having a non-sterile surface touch any sterile surface, and a cell-phone antenna that had to fit inside the body of the phone.
The "authentic performance" movement was cresting, and everyone seemed intent on playing Bach at the fastest possible tempos on antique instruments that could barely be heard in large halls.
