Several commercially available devices that use mechanical vibration for physical rehabilitation, massage therapy, or dentistry may serve as rudimentary conceptual prototypes which could be further developed for clinical use in tumor treatment.
A prototype SEHRAC, which could be switched between the CT and TEV systems, was designed and setup in a test facility for two identical sets of experiments.
And now researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona, along with support from DARPA (who else?), have developed a prototype gigapixel camera, which could herald the age of the billion pixel family portrait.
In the old days, explained Iorio, when G.E. wanted to build a jet engine part, a designer would have to design the product, then G.E. would have to build the machine tools to make a prototype of that part, which could take up to a year, and then it would manufacture the part and test it, with each test iteration taking a few months.
The D-4 designation applied to a prototype torpedo-bomber version, which could carry a 750 905 kg aerial torpedo on a PVC 1006 B rack.
The university hopes to have a prototype ready in two years which could be used to authenticate paintings.
Just last month, NASA awarded a $125,000 grant to Systems & Materials Research Corporation to prototype a 3D food printer, which could be used to end world hunger and food waste.
In his lab, they put together a rudimentary prototype of a chemical 3D printer, which could be programmed to make basic chemical reactions to produce different molecules.
A decade ago, Otis developed a prototype of a conveyance called Odyssey, which could slide out of its shaft and travel on a horizontal track to another shaft, with the help of a linear induction motor.
He also developed a prototype contemporary bungalow, two or three of which could be built on a plot now occupied by a single Lutyens-era house.
