Compare an innovation as incredibly mundane as a new plastic lid for paint cans with a whiz-bang, new computer chip.

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But then a colleague at his Atlanta investment company, Convex Group, passed him a plastic lid with a coupon attached to it in August 2002.

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Anthony Missano, an executive at Sbarro, was looking for a way to attract teens to the pizza-and-pasta chain when a soft drink sales rep handed him a fountain drink with a mini music CD tucked inside the plastic lid.

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The odds against the DNA in the red, plastic sombrero lid coming from anyone but Bayne were 9.6 million to one.

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My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.

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The boxes are clear plastic and have an opaque lid with a slot in it and four locks.

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She removed the lid of the oatmeal and the canned pears and peeled off the layer of plastic wrap covering the glass of water.

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The R830 looks the same, though it has a strip on the edge of the lid that looks like it's made of magnesium alloy, but is actually plastic -- a material that's expected to improve the signals of the the various antennae housed underneath it.

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Ultimately, then, the difference between the two comes down to build quality: the Fit E is made of plastic, whereas the Fit has a thinner aluminum chassis, with the fans hidden above the keyboard, and a lid that covers the hinge.

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