We see the S1082 as a different beast -- it's an evolution of an existing design that's really meant for business users.

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For Fairs, wearable technologies such as Google Glass point to another major evolution in design: the disappearance of objects altogether.

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This uses a process of randomisation and trial-and-error (akin to mutation and selection in biological evolution) to search the vast number of possible microstructures to find the most suitable design for each subsection.

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