While serious bartenders tend to assemble their tools piecemeal, we layfolk often fall for the convenience of bar-in-a-box type sets.

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Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.

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Apple set the bar for consumer tablets but so far has really missed the boat when it comes to providing corporate-type applications and services, leaving a solid opening for the RIM tablet and giving those using Android and Windows 7 the opportunity to build devices that will appeal to the business market as well as consumers.

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Besides its game-changing design, the ThinkPad Helix comes with exceptional performance and productivity features that set the bar for this type of device.

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