Family Dollar, for one, has started using Bamboo Rose to capture images at trade shows in Asia and transmit them to suppliers as wish lists of products they are interested in, Welch told Forbes.com.

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Among the first to situate his home and studio here was Bae Bien-U, one of Asia's most highly regarded photographers and famous for his black-and-white images of gnarled pines.

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Katherine Tsiang, associate director of the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia, spent many years travelling around the world to locate the missing sculptures and collect 3D digital images - technology that was not available when she started the project.

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