Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.

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The meal is often finished with a traditional sweet - such as a sticky rice cake in the shape of a purple blossom, with paper-thin slices of pear shaped like leaves.

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Last year her intelligence got a whole lot better when the show organizers agreed to outfit each attendee with a name tag that includes a paper-thin wireless chip encoded with a 24-digit number.

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