In other words, you're looking at a future in which robotic hands interpret the nuances of a surface or gripped object akin to a human fingertip and artificial skin senses touch similar to the way tiny hairs on an arm do.

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It's when her acolytes start stalking her, desperate to have their skin healed by her soothing touch and her secret enzyme-and-zinc potion, which leaves skin baby-soft and plump.

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People would come up to me and touch my skin.

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Additionally, the new "Beauty Effect" feature gives users several post-shooting "re-touch" options including skin toning and smoothing, teeth whitening, eye widening and shine removal.

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The idea that livers, hearts, and skin would be grown in the laboratory may seem a little strange, even a touch macabre.

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We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.

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However, the Chinese skin care market dynamics make us believe that Estee Lauder could reasonably gain 7.2% by 2012 and eventually touch 8% in the coming years, leading to around 6% potential upside to our current Trefis price estimate of its stock.

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