First Technologies

Centre for alternative technology: sustainable living at Europe's leading eco-center and a healthy whiff of hippydom.(50 HIDDEN GEMS: ON ONGOING SERIES)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1696 words; ...d find congenial. Welcome to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)at Machynlleth. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CAT features...they set out to test different, environmentally friendly technologies and ways of living. Following a visit by the Duke of Edinburgh...surprisingly hard work, maybe it's better to use ...

Toyota: over and out: after what it called the best year of its disappointing stint in Fl, the world's largest car company bids the sport goodbye.(THE SPIN: MOVERS, SHAKERS, TROUBLE-MAKERS)
Racer; 1/1/2010; 1087 words; ...about Toyota's F1 future after the company reported its first operating loss ever in March, and given the departures of...resources toward further intensive development of innovative technologies," said Bridgestone Motorsport director Hiroshi Yasukawa...

Flight simulator aces the move from PC to console.(IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey)(Product/service evaluation)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 802 words; ...genre, that may change with the release of Birds of Prey, the first console-based game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series. It is...are just as impressive: the game developers used satellite technology to capture such iconic environments as the frozen Russian countryside...

HAWX and Endwar: two stylish wargames take aerial combat into the future.(AIRWARE)(Product/service evaluation)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 741 words; ...real life in several ways. First, there are more than 50 licensed...believable extrapolations of current technology, e.g. the use of fly...Ultimately, HAWX isn't the first place to go for realism or...vocabulary. They're not the first to include such a user interface...

Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems.(Editorial)
Journal of Advanced Transportation; 12/22/2009; 1896 words; ...the second set of 5 articles accepted for publication. The first set composed also of 5 papers was published in volume 43...design, economics, engineering, operations, planning and technology of different transportation mode. They also prove how powerful...