The company's engineers are confident that their modified chip-design software will allow previously flat circuits to be wrapped around the surface of a sphere.

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Glass company Corning Incorporated announced the launch of "Willow Glass, " a super thin, flexible new type of glass that can actually be can be wrapped around devices or products.

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The idea behind thin-film solar cells, however, is to work with flexible films, slashing costs while creating solar cells that can be wrapped around walls or even incorporated into tinted windows.

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While fine for computers and other products, they are inflexible and cannot be easily wrapped around curved surfaces or pliable ones, making them hard to be used in the body.

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At that size, about 15 of the maps could be wrapped end to end long-ways around a strand of human hair, by our math.

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She would fry eggs by the platterful and pour black coffee, and be glad they were not in a smoking hulk wrapped around a tree, or at the mercy of the police.

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With tears in his eyes and the Paraguayan flag wrapped around his neck, Mr Cartes said he would be the president of all Paraguayans.

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Usually that capability to execute is wrapped around a number of prior experiences, where they learned a lot, which accelerates their ability to be successful now.

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