Sentences with phrase «less conventional designs»

And by building something closer to a standard smartphone, Fairphone 2 has the advantage of getting out the door earlier than less conventional designs.

Not exact matches

If you're looking for a casual dress shirt, try picking one in a less conventional short sleeved design, or go for a intricate pattern or colour.

A camel coat with a belt gives a more conventional trench look, but you can easily go for a modern interpretation of the design that doesn't use the belt, giving you a less busy finish.

A lesson designed to get students thinking about how we might manipulate equations to solve in a less conventional sense.

By using innovative financing and a fixed - price, lump - sum design - build contract for SH 130 Segments 1 - 4, the project was completed 25 years sooner than conventional pay - as - you - go financing would have allowed and the final cost is less than the original 2002 cost estimate.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

It's a trait of cars in this class to look a little less conventional than their hatchback counterparts and the Kona follows this trend, with a design that's funkier and slightly more eye - catching than more utilitarian Hyundai models we're used to, such as the i20.

Adding to this ample figure, Saleen not only employs the massive supercharger but also adds a specially designed performance exhaust system that is less restrictive than conventional exhaust systems.

The design was chosen thanks to the large volume of air four valves can move, while the roller - followers provided a smoother operation with less friction than conventional lifters, adding to the engine's efficiency.

Inside and out, the angular Volt moves to a more conventional design that Chevy says is «less geeky and more cool.»

All are impressive in their own way, but only the Ioniq and Prius were designed from the ground up as hybrids, and so are less compromised than those based on conventional petrol or diesel cars.

The crazy design of the 2007 Kindle was swapped for a more conventional, flatter, design, with a button lay - out that was flatter and less dominating.

Backed by the Federal Housing Administration, this type of loan requires a smaller down payment (as low as 3.5 %) than a conventional loan and is designed for those with less - than - perfect credit scores.

If we can show that our building would lead to one percent less sick leave because of its healthy interior, designed with human well - being at the forefront, that building could be up to 25 percent more expensive than a conventional facility.

In the Flibe design, thorium reaction temperatures rise to about 750 degrees Celsius to drive gas turbines, compared to conventional reactors, which tend to reach less than half that temperature and drive less efficient steam turbines, he said.

But it will take nothing less than for the industry to shift from its conventional reactor designs and from the uranium 235 fuel process on which it began to settle in the 1960s, according to Sorensen.

The structure was designed to consume 85 percent less energy than conventional Malaysian office buildings through an integrated design process approach, responding to the conditions and needs of its specific site.

In an experiment designed like a game of three - way telephone in which subjects were asked to select and pass on Facebook messages about climate change, the authors found that a conventional framing of climate change in terms of environmental risks was more likely to be shared, compared to less conventional messages emphasizing the public health and economic benefits to action.

It starts as a teardrop, the aerodynamic trailer design that has been around forever; they are easy to pull, with 75 % less drag than a conventional trailer.

FHA loans are designed to promote homeownership via less stringent underwriting standards than conventional loans.

Most states define a «personal watercraft» as: «a vessel 13 feet in length or less, propelled by machinery, that is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling on the vessel rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the vessel.

Its display is somewhat less conventional, with an unusual 18:9 aspect ratio and rounded corners, although its ultra-thin bezels are very much in line with current industry design trends.

Unlike the Huawei, it's been designed with sports in mind first, so the design is a little less conventional and a lot more like Polar devices.