It is no anachronism to suggest that he pioneered a prototype of Facebook; he even photographed people absorbed in the pages of these addictive books.
Along with the sunscreen, the artists pioneered the prototype for a visor with a dichroic reflective surface that allows its wearers to see but not be seen.
Gray Area has also pioneered urban prototyping, a movement to get city residents involved in trialling new ideas for city life through quick, inexpensive and temporary projects.
In South Africa's Sabi Sand game reserve, the Londolozi reserve is pioneering the experimental prototype of a zero emissions safari vehicle.
She will always be the prototype, the pioneer and the one who was there first.
Hidden in the depths of the auxiliary halls at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas is a small British company usually based in Manchester's MediaCityUK, showing off a prototype its pioneering wearable safety device for children and the elderly.
The next five years are ripe for market expansion using the prototypes pioneered by the start-ups mentioned here.
Several technologies were pioneered in these prototypes, but most never reached production owing to their impracticality or other market forces.
Planning for the Saint-Etienne railway preceded the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, which was used as the prototype by other pioneering railways, so many new technical problems had to be solved.
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a pioneering telecommunications engineer at Motorola, hoisted his prototype two-and-a-half-pound DynaTAC outside the Hilton and dialed Joel Engel, the research chief at Bell Labs, to announce, "Joel, this is Marty.
