Mr Demel intends to improve Fiat's model range not with new grand designs but by, for instance, offering more variations of engines and transmissions with a given model, to appeal to a wider range of drivers.

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That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.

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And we have held up, for instance, the model of Yemen, where you had a leader step down from power in an orderly fashion and then a road map towards elections.

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During a recent trip to Asia, I discovered that the conventional wisdom is wrong and now in a rare instance I will need to change my long-term model for Apple.

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In one particularly nifty instance, they used a mouse model to demonstrate that an implanted medical device could accelerate wound healing and kill bacteria, then dissolve once the job was done.

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