"I knew that he was always there if I needed, " said Daniels, adding that Poland was an excellent mechanic with an array of tools that he lent to people in town.

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For example, the developers at Foursquare whose job it is to create location-based applications continue to come up with an array of tools that enable customers to get information about products and services right in the store or even while in a restaurant, a museum, or a hotel.

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The real creative types were the Bond villains, who had to come up with creative plans, communicate with and organize a vast array of minions, keep an eye out for meddlesome interlopers, and acquire and manage an array of techno tools.

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One was the world of statistics, measurement, rigor and process: an appealing array of tools that, in isolation, promised control and predictable outcomes.

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As such, the mesh approach gives XO an array of collaborative tools that puts expensive business laptops to shame.

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TechShop's overseers have, quite cannily, begun to offer up a portion of the warehouse's 17, 000 square feet as office space, giving its members a shot at some prime San Francisco real estate, a flight of stairs up from an impressive array of machine tools -- laser cutters, water jets and more 3D printers than most mortals have seen in one place.

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In addition, they depend on an array of specialty devices, such as audio book-readers, color readers, navigation tools, raised Braille labels, special bar-code scanners, and large-buttoned, voice-enabled MP3 players which are prohibitively expensive.

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