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15 unusual facts about State of the art


Bruichladdich distillery

At the time, the distillery was a state-of-the-art design unlike Islay's older distilleries, which had developed from old farm buildings.

Camp Marcella

State of the art smoke and fire detectors, with emergency lighting, have been installed in each cabin and are wired into a central system which will report any activity directly to the nearby Rockaway Fire Department.

Carl Breer

On the west coast, he was also a developer of the cutting edge two-cylinder Duro car.

CT pulmonary angiogram

State of the art Modern CT scanners with a scan rate of up to 320 mm/s can acquire all the images within a 1 second X-ray exposure, avoiding the problems of respiratory motion, cardiac motion and contrast draining from the pulmonary circulation during the study.

Dreams of the Carrion Kind

Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic gave the album 4.5 stars of 5 calling it "state-of-the-art death metal in the eyes of most enthusiasts of the genre."

Flashed Face Distortion Effect

“These are the best illusions of the year, so they’re very new by definition. You’re going to know the phenomenology first, and the neural underpinnings second. Typically, we don’t know why these illusions work in the brain. We may have theories, but the experiments have not been done, because it’s too early. This is really at the cutting edge.”

Marie Vassilieff

It became the nexus for those at the cutting-edge of art at the time, when Erik Satie, Henri Matisse, Nina Hamnett, Amedeo Modigliani, Ossip Zadkine, Juan Gris, and Chaim Soutine started dropping by in the evenings for conversation and occasionally to draw.

Mark Pigott

He promotes a spirit of innovation and quality control throughout the workplace and invests in new cutting-edge technology, which has led to the development of aerodynamic designs and hybrid vehicles that promote fuel efficiency.

Medical consensus

Medical consensus is a public statement on a particular aspect of medical knowledge available at the time it was written, and that is generally agreed upon as the evidence-based, state-of-the-art (or state-of-science) knowledge by a representative group of experts in that area.

Moog Source

Though state-of-the-art at the time, the membrane panels are prone to malfunction after extended use.

Online Complaint Management System

State of the art management information reports on complaint details and pending complaints with reasons and remarks provides management a better insight to problems and traffic situations of telephone lines.

Organizations of the Dune universe

Finally, the Ixians produce cutting-edge technology that seemingly complies with (but sometimes pushes the boundaries of) the prohibitions against computers, thinking machines and conscious robots put in place 10,000 years before as a result of the Butlerian Jihad.

Park Place Gallery

Many of the sculptors, painters and other artists who exhibited in Park Place Gallery were interested in cutting edge architecture, electronic music, and minimal art.

Skiffy

The term "sci-fi" was publicly adopted as an alternate form of "science fiction" by Forrest ("Forry") J Ackerman by 1954, in analogy to the then-cutting edge "hi-fi".

State of the art

The State of the Art, a collection of short fiction by Iain M. Banks