On the software side of things, Samsung is taking advantage of its mobile devices' processing power to layer premium features on top of Android, such as the ability to run two apps at once in a split screen or separate window.

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With the right algorithms backed by enough computing power, the salt layer can be transformed from a blinder into a lens.

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For some agricultural land, we see the almost unbelievable spectacle of power shovels removing a layer of contaminated topsoil to be stored for 40 years.

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The latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform adds another layer of speed and power to the MOTO XT882, and enables easy multitasking.

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While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.

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In effect, this could reduce the home gaming hardware layer to a dumb terminal, with limited processing and power requirements.

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The three-layer version, in particular, provides a unique hybrid power supply.

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It's a layer of carbon nanotubes on silicon, and it might just be instrumental to getting a lot more power out of solar cells than we're used to.

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