Same goes for Avery Dennison, which makes self-adhesive labels and other products used by retailers and auto suppliers.

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Self-adhesive electronics devices thinner than the diameter of a human hair can monitor the human heart, brain waves and muscle activity.

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But beyond wanting all your friends to know how much you like Nascar or self-adhesive envelopes, does your thumbs up even matter?

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Because the chips were so small and easy to make, they could be embedded in documents as they were printed, stuck to any surface or made into a book of self-adhesive dots, he added.

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Most self-adhesive bandages stick poorly to wet skin.

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The film is coloured and self-adhesive.

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His research has resulted in the development of the first self-cleaning, dry adhesive and a number of gecko-like robots, including Stickybot, a mechanized lizard developed by Stanford University engineers that can climb up windows and walls using its own adhesive appendages.

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