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Making appliances, cars, buildings and factories more efficient is called the "low-hanging fruit" of strategies to cut greenhouse emissions.
On the negative side, the other General Electric commercial, about making appliances in America, was considered the most boring by the voters on NYTimes.com.
Manufacturers are also making appliances that might someday be adapted to communicate directly with utilities or with smart meters when they are installed.
He prefers products made before 1960, the year his business was born and plastics and complicated circuitry began making appliances more disposable.
And I made the brilliant decision to say we won't go in with appliances, there's not enough technology, it's not sophisticated enough, there'll be too many people making appliances.
Other examples include, Whirlpool's making appliances for Sears, AT&T's licensing its mobile network to Virgin Atlantic and other small carriers, Toyota's selling hybrid engines to General Motors and Microsoft's tailoring its Office software for Apple computers.
The two sides have one theme in common: Both are stressing that technology can help the nation meet its energy needs by making appliances, automobiles, homes and factories use less power.
The company makes appliance servers.
Reinhart is also trying to make appliance chips more open in design, with standardized commands.
Cobalt, based in Mountain View, Calif., makes appliances that link multiple computers to the Internet.
