Sentences with phrase «leapfrog technology»

«They're looking at this as a leapfrog technology.

But as pointed out in an article on Psychologytoday.com, «Stories leapfrog the technology and bring us to the core of experience...».

«If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in sub-Saharan Africa working on child prostitution,» Josh Tetrick tells me, referring to his leapfrog technology, egg - replacement startup, Hampton Creek Foods.

Consumers» brand loyalty to Apple is so strong that the company is closer to the stability of an elite consumer - product company than the vulnerability of other tech firms, which can be surpassed by rivals who leapfrog their technology, Buffett said.

More and more, the existential risks and the primary threats of abrupt displacement come laterally — from new entrants, from unrelated businesses expanding into your space, from leapfrog technology, and from changes in the customers» needs and requirements.

Not exact matches

If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

• WorldRemit, a London - based digital money transfer service, raised $ 40 million in Series C funding led by LeapFrog Investments and was joined by investors including Accel and Technology Crossover Ventures.

Technology consultant Joel Bruckenstein praised Fidelity's platform, which he says «leapfrogs the competition.»

Technology and innovation, coupled with financing services could offer leapfrog solutions for both business and people in need.

In fact, the growing use of «wireless» technologies will allow such nations to «leapfrog» over previous wired technologies.

LeapFrog calls this technology «Duo Tech».

When it comes to communications technology, at least: in a Netroots Nation panel today on political organizing in rural areas, Mindy Diane Feldman mentioned that some rural areas in this country are effectively leapfrogging a generation of communications technology, skipping past dial - up and even...

The Labs» goal, as Matt characterized it (and as I'll support after having talked with some of the folks behind it), is to find technologies or technologists that will let them leapfrog the Democrats and achieve online dominance in one stroke.

«It is more advanced than the United States or the United Kingdom or Germany because they are stuck to old technology, and we are leapfrogging.

The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.

Countries developing their economies now have access to a range of technologies that can allow them to leapfrog inefficient processes used in developed nations.

«It can scale globally,» he added, likening the battery systems» potential in emerging economies to mobile phones that penetrated markets faster than old technology and leapfrogged landline sales.

And the industrial nations commit to helping the developing ones «leapfrog» past the inefficient and dirty - energy technologies that fueled the industrialization of the former but mortgaged the environ - ment in the process.

Canon is hoping to leapfrog the competition and produce flat TVs with wide, high - definition screens using a technology called ferroelectric LCD.

COMPETES authorizes ongoing support for ARPA - E, the novel energy - research program modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which promises to give rise to «leapfrog» technologies that will reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources and stimulate a green economy while producing steady, high - quality jobs of the future.

«Technology is one of the most visible ways we've «leapfrogged ahead» in Africa,» she says referring to the way many African consumers skipped the landline and went straight to mobile.

94, Ed.D.» 99, found his own way to combine education and fun: as director of learning at LeapFrog, the technology - based toy company based in Emeryville, Calif., just east of San Francisco.

With a hydrogen infrastructure in place, the more economical FCVs could leapfrog EVs in market demand, says Takeshi Uchiyamada, executive vice president - product planning and advanced technology.

Q: Some analysts feel that Toyota is hoping to leapfrog Chinese and South Korean battery makers — and by extension electric - car makers — with your solid - state technology.

It's rare you'll find a company so committed to its history that it manages to leapfrog a century of technology and still honor its traditions.

«During the development process of the Chrysler 300, we encouraged a continuous exchange of engineering «best practices» between all DaimlerChrysler partners to leapfrog our own high standards for passenger safety, security and comfort, «said Mark Chernoby, Vice President, Advanced Engineering Technology.

If there is an area that the Sierra leapfrogs the Ram, it is in technology.

In 2013, the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX tablets became the top - performing tablet displays in our Display Technology Shoot - Out series, leapfrogging the competition with cutting - edge displays using quantum dots and LTPS.

David Risher two years ago explained that Worldreader has the opportunity to leapfrog print technology in the Third World.

Access our learning library of 1,000 + games and more, all designed or approved by LeapFrog educators * and featuring Just For Me Learning Technology.

Today LeapFrog Enterprises debuted its new collection of products that combine education, technology and engaging play at the 2018 North American International Toy Fair.

Flows of technology and knowledge, for example, allow for a lot of leapfrogging.

Having said that, i believe that China for example is really experiencing the kind of pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem

Even as developing regions of the world leapfrog into technologies that are more resource efficient and carbon intensive — it is apparent that the demand for resources — including coal and oil — will expand this century.

And taking the lead involves allowing for the transfer of technologies to developing countries so that they can leapfrog some of the high carbon, high fossil fuel, high greenhouse gas emission technologies that we've gone through.

Sokona called for «leapfrogging» directly to cleaner technologies and sustainable land - use solutions, but said these should be home - grown, built by an African pool of researchers and industry that needed to be nurtured.

In particular it emphasizes the necessity of building a strong network of technology centres as this is critical to enable developing countries to leapfrog to low greenhouse gas emission development paths.

Perhaps a confluence of these two events will allow African countries to leapfrog over the large - scale, traditional light - water nuclear technologies to nuclear technology that is smaller, modular, more flexible, and overall more appropriate.

Tesla's battery technology is one of the major reasons it has been able to leapfrog the legacy automakers.

I however know that the leapfrog scheme is not very good technology.

Technology is opening up new ways to manage the potential strains on both the energy and water sides, with creative solutions that leapfrog those used in the past.

Then, developing countries would use that climate - friendly technology to leapfrog over wealthy nations» cast - offs.

With 2,000 Chinese companies manufacturing rooftop solar water heaters, this relatively simple low - cost technology is not only widely used in cities, it has also leapfrogged into villages that do not yet have electricity.

«This leapfrogging process is not automatic,» said Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center.

Industrialized countries should also assist developing countries to buy newer and better technologies to leapfrog over older equipment.

The fund would include technology transfer to help develop economies «leapfrog» a carbon - intensive development path.

I'm not arguing a static approach to energy (and environmental considerations), but that we shouldn't leapfrog context and assume who or what the «better» science - technology - economic - environmental advisor should be.

Dr Kirit Parikh, a former member of India's Planning Commission, said: «India has the opportunity to leapfrog the efforts of more developed economies by deploying newer, cleaner technologies.

«Developing countries can leapfrog conventional options,» the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon wrote in the New York Times last year, «just as they leapfrogged land - line based phone technologies in favor of mobile networks.»

Future investment in state - of - the - art technologies in countries without embedded infrastructure may be possible by «leapfrogging» rather than following a similar historic course of development to that of OECD nations.