Our advance army of maids holds the world by its vacuum cleaners.

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Press the green button with the little flag and you'll be propelled into a world of expensive sophisticated dual core processors, pricey aluminum enclosures with vacuum fluorescent displays, redundant functionality and slowly evolving integration with digital cable and satellite.

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Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors, " which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth.

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