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Hold the iPhone! One tiny Apple patent can't be evil
Apple could come up with an idea for remote-controlled ravioli and the patent forms would be fetched from the cupboard.
Changespotting: No shame in outsourcing your dirty work
There's nothing you can't outsource these days - even email composition.
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Changespotting: The energy efficiency edition
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Changespotting: The energy efficiency edition
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Changespotting: Specs for all and cleaner energy
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Changespotting: Outsmarting the human body
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Dags and fibre make grass grow
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Changespotting: Breaking down communication barriers
Language barriers are slowly being dismantled.
The blind pioneers learning to 'see' like bats
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Drug hope for aggressive breast cancer
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Fly me to the shops: Sky cars go on sale
When US company Terrafugia unveils the prototype of its new car this July the price tag will probably barely be mentioned.
Changespotting: In the line of fire
Wheelchairs for the blind, injury-assessing guns and the rise of gestural interface technology.
War on smoking moves to new battlegrounds
It's the developing world, not the West, which now consumes most of the world's cigarettes.
Web makes mockery of gagging orders
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Changespotting: Recycle your way to a better life
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