EADS-Astrium is about to launch its first SDR product, a piece of kit to be used by the military that can convert different kinds of signals, but Mr Kinsella said it was still an emerging technology.

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The company's main product, a mushroom-growing kit, is a cardboard box that houses a plastic bag filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spawn.

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The product, Switch 8 Solar Recharging Kit, from Goal Zero, is ultra-lightweight aluminum package smaller than a roll of quarters and less tangled than all those power cables in your briefcase.

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This year, Thomas Heatherwick's shortlisted Olympic cauldron lost out to Kit Yamoto's anti-diarrhoea kits in the product category.

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However, the headset that's currently available is a development kit, and not meant as representative of the final retail product.

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The Chief Executive of iFixit will take his tool kit anywhere in the world to get his hands on an Apple product first so that he can tear it apart and tell the rest of us how to fix it.

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The company's first product was an adaptation of the Basic programming language used in the Altair 8800, a kit computer.

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It has great product but has entered hotly contested markets and its sales approach is based around its experience with kit rather than with people.

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The two pieces that are nearest and dearest to our hearts are the WNHDB3004 and WNHDB3004, the former of which is an 802.11n HD Home Theater Kit and the latter of which is a universal WiFi adapter that adds wireless support to any AV product with an Ethernet jack.

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