The intelligence in the ThingShapes can monitor for relevant business events, compare them to past results, and notify the industrial social network of people and other things about important events such as a quality problem, a machine failure, or a late order.

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Just a bit too late, he realises that he is nothing more that a small cog in the machine that delivers oil to American consumers at affordable prices.

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The Nazi angle takes Cook to Austria, where he visits the family of the late Viktor Schauberger, a forestry engineer and inventor who experimented with a machine called a Repulsine.

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With the help of Vue brewers (which has a much higher price tag than K-cup brewers) and another espresso machine that Green Mountain plans to launch in late 2012 or early 2013, that figure could get a further boost.

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