Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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Shifting constantly, the mighty mountains of sand are born when a few grains collect around a nest of grass.
You can pay yourself a fantastic salary or collect a pile of dividends.
Curiosity drilled a hole in Mars to collect a sample of its surface, which is the first time any rover has drilled such a hole on the Red Planet.
If enough symptoms match the operator's list, they're given an online voucher so a "flu friend" can collect a course of Tamiflu.
For instance, did you know you could take a humble corporate bond yielding 7%, collect a yield of 10% and cash out with a 73% gain?
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With computers and all kinds of diagnostic developments, it's now possible to collect a lot of data about each individual and to generate a lot of personalized analysis and advice.
But such was the manner of the game that Whitehaven were back up the other end to collect a score of their own.
In order to hold the referendum, the opposition had to collect a minimum of 2.4 million signatures.
Every day she heads to the panda enclosure to collect a sample of Tian Tian's urine before riding across Edinburgh by bus.
New York will never collect a cent of revenue from tobacco sales occurring in our territories, and revenue projections so indicating are foolishness.
Ex-resident Jonathan Hunt, who helped collect a petition of 200 signatures to get the park removed, said the noise is keeping people awake at night.
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The site doesn't collect a lot of demographic data on its users, but Mr. Gottfrid said there is an opportunity to target ads based on the content a user is interested in.
In order to qualify, they either had to collect a minimum of 50, 000 signatures in support of their candidacy, or demonstrate the support of 20 members of the Chamber of Deputies or 10 members of the Senate.
Three days later when the first men to reach another world arrived, their initial act, within moments of setting foot there, was to document and collect a precious sample of lunar dust, to share with laboratories across the Earth.
"We know that honeybees can fly over 10km from their hive to a patch of flowers to collect food (nectar and pollen) and then fly home - a round trip of over 20km, " says Dr Raine.
This will, in effect, create an incentive for banks to wean themselves off of the capital infusion, or else the government will collect a greater share of returns.
Indeed, a chunk of that prize money will go toward a market researcher to collect that blizzard of information as quickly as possible.
Liquidated damages are set to an amount the parties designate during the formation of a contract for an injured party to collect as compensation upon a specific breach of the agreement.
Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.
Over the course of two summer internships, I have worked on the Presidential Libraries team to collect a small sample of records related to Americans with disabilities.
Plus each of you pays a cost in the time it takes to think of a gift and collect and wrap it.
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As a result, it is necessary to collect only a single type of plastic to ensure the desired material properties.
It uses NFC-equipped tags that pop into the end of each club and a hip-mounted "GYG" device to collect the data with a battery life of two rounds (about 8 hours) -- and no need to pack a smartphone or tablet onto the course.
Pondering the situation, he ordered one of the farmworkers to find a really thick piece of leather and to collect sticky mango sap from a nearby tree.
I'm just going to need a bit of time to collect myself up and get myself back together a bit.
Another was to use foreign currency: the bank could lend, or accept a bill of exchange, in one currency and collect its debt in another, building a hidden rate of interest into the exchange rate.
She likes geology, so last summer she joined a University of California expedition to collect samples from a glacier in India's Garwhal Himalayas.
By making Iron Man 3 as a U.S.-China coproduction, Disney would collect a 38% cut of the box office as befits a domestic film.
And there's a growing number of companies that now offer to collect huge amounts of data and analyse it as a service, with the promise of helping businesses find nuggets of information that give them a competitive advantage in their markets.
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