Pound for pound stronger than steel, lighter than cotton, thin as a human hair, flexible as silk, transparent as air, these fibers, drawn from glass, may revolutionize communications.

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The exhibit is a very thin slice of a human body which has been preserved using Von Hagens' pioneering plastination procedure.

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Its creator (and MC10 co-founder), John Rogers has refined that design so that it's no longer an elastomer sticker -- now he can apply the biostamp's thin, stretchy electronics directly on human skin, and bond it with commercially available spray-on bandage material.

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Building a company out of thin air is one of the hardest human pursuits.

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This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).

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That super thin profile means it conforms even better to the contours of human hide and makes it shower- and swim-proof during the two weeks it lasts before being naturally exfoliated with your skin.

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She said the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act "yet again shows itself to be wearing very thin at the seams".

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If the results of human trials are just as good (not a sure bet), a pill to make fat people thin--one of the holy grails for drug companies--will have been discovered.

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