They recognized something that was going on with the Nathan's hot dog eating contest, and they had this insight that this could be developed beyond Nathan's.
"Asking the other people in the jury who are experts in the field, they totally think that this could be developed into something that could be of great use both in treating waste water and purifying drinking water," he said.
The industry's promoters say that Japan sits on about 20,000 MW of geothermal energy, or the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors, though not all of this could be developed.
But it has a great feature for rewarding users built in already, and you can see how this could be developed in future as one route to revenue: the Gift of Thanks, which owners give to sitters after you've come back to town.
The tingle in my feet lasts a few hours, and I start to think that perhaps this could be developed as a natural alternative to acupuncture.
If a simple and clinically acceptable intervention were available that could add an oscillatory increment to ventilation, of a desired predictable size and timing, this could be developed into a treatment to attenuate the respiratory instability seen in these patients.
