At a dollar a chip, ZigBee transceivers could even be built into toasters and coffee pots.

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You can imagine what that would do the price of coffee pots.

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It would be like if you were trying sell coffee pots but in every state you sell it, you had to have a different plug.

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Motorola recently announced an aggressive plan to push its Nitron line of microcontroller chips, which it sells for about 70 cents each, into products ranging from TV remote controls to coffee pots.

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If you work in an office, make sure to wash your hands at regular intervals, especially after touching shared objects or surfaces like coffee pots, elevator buttons, the Xerox machine, office supplies, and doorknobs.

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Her books document the transition from tradition to Western motifs and shapes, among them coffee pots and sugar casters, and also delves into the sources for the armorial pieces for which this Brazilian collector has a special fondness.

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Duffy made five pots of coffee.

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The truly coffee-mad experiment with Dr. Frankenstein--style vacuum pots, which infuse the grinds with steam siphoned between two glass globes.

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