Sentences with phrase «lockheed skunkworks project»

One of the most innovative media partnerships so far was spurred by a skunkworks project that Schmidt, the media group manager, created for ESPN's X Games.

I've known Turner for years and first met him when he was at Lotus (he had two stints at the Norfolk company), where he worked on the Corvette ZR1 engine, Lotus's own V8 and numerous skunkworks projects, including a test engine nicknamed Omnivore for its ability to run on virtually any fuel, and an optical engine that allowed the combustion process to be observed through a transparent cylinder.

Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division sounds very much like a clandestine organization secretly engineering skunkwork projects that would make the SR71 Blackbird look quaint in comparison.

Rather than some skunkworks project, the B - Class Electric Drive felt like a finished car ready for the showroom floor.

The skunkworks project kicked off shortly after the Trailblazer's launch in 2002.

Once in a blue moon, Corvette celebrates its heritage by giving us the Grand Sport — a model that started out as a skunkworks project behind GMs back to make a standard «Vette race - ready.

We're not just doing this because we saw what happened with Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, and the other oldies around here that are making great comebacks; we were already working on Carmageddon: Reincarnation as a skunkworks project.

-- David Taggart, former Lockheed Skunkworks Project Manager, Co-Founder and former Chief Technical Officer, HyperCar (the spinoff from the Rocky Mountain Institute, which then became Fiberforge), chaired by Amory Lovins

Then kind of the super-secret skunkworks project that we haven't started yet is we're going to finally figure out a way to let people join Lawyerist and become a member.

We have this skunkworks project inside of Fastcase.

TipTalk, one of the skunkworks projects out of Samsung's Creative Lab on show at CES 2016 this week, does just that, however.

Google has given up on Project Ara, another of the company's more intriguing skunkworks projects shuttered without making the big waves the initial hullabaloo promised.

Not exact matches

«I have seen people manage it by always having at least one project they are passionate about, even if it's an after - hours, skunkworks kind of project to which they devote only a few hours per week.

And at that point the idea to go back to Le Mans with a Mustang was canned, and replaced with a top secret skunkworks — Project Silver — to build an all - new GT to take to Le Mans, plus a corresponding road car to go with it.

After showing off this HP «slate» at CES in 2010 (which never shipped), and having a promising skunkworks tablet project «Courier» go to junk, Microsoft is in trouble.

Google will keep hold of Motorola's Advanced Technology & Products group even after handing over Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, it's been confirmed, the skunkworks team behind the Project Ara modular phone and high - tech treats like digital tattoos.

Whether it's enough for Microsoft to continue the project when it takes control of Nokia's phone business imminently remains to be seen, though there are some good reasons why the company might allow an Android - loving skunkworks to keep developing.