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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In each case, electronic fabrics sensitive to vibrations and charge could serve as a foundational technology. Piezoelectric materials produce surface charge when subject to mechanical deformation. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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