Because the technology is largely based on biological materials, the eventual cost could be lower than solar photovoltaic cells and other technologies that require specially manufactured materials, Sahin believes.
One of the early Christian sects, the Messalians, even went so far as to teach that each human soul was inhabited by a personal demon -- after all, if one believes in a specially assigned "guardian angel," why not a specially assigned tempter as well?
Diodorus even said that some citizens who bought children from poor people and reared them specially for sacrifice believed misfortunes had resulted because they had not sacrificed their own offspring.
Mr. Guixé, who once held a party at which guests inhaled gin and tonic through a specially formulated indoor fog, also believes that food should be redesigned.
Naturally, though, the sensible old RHS believes that a fertiliser that has been specially formulated for acid-loving plants will give better results.
It's "very common on the sidelines" to hear parents say that they believe a specially designed helmet they have purchased for their child will help protect them from concussions, says Rebekah Mannix, a pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital, who was not involved in the IOM report.
Dan Kafie, the 24-year-old Honduran native who co-founded Vostu, believes his site can compete with the larger ones because it's specially tailored to the needs of a relatively small but affluent group.
Kasikci believes well-heeled guests will want a new type of shipping container specially tailored to luggage-free travel.
"My boy is wonderfully made and I believe we are specially made for each other.
Based on this and other debris recovered from the Greenland coast, the meteorologist Henrik Mohn developed a theory of transpolar drift, which led Nansen to believe that a specially designed ship could be frozen in the pack ice and follow the same track as the Jeannette wreckage, thus reaching the vicinity of the pole.
