The idea is to attach a patch of the stuff to tents, so soldiers in the field have a built-in power source.

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Campaign groups say that will mean thousands of new homes will now be built in the East - many on green field sites.

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Easy audio system adjustments can be made through the built-in iPersonalize feature, which automatically applies optimal sound field settings to the vehicle based on parameters such as vehicle format, speaker quantity and location, and upholstery type.

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Nokia will once again play a big part in that, having built so-called Near Field Communications technology, which allows mobile payments, into its phones for some time, and Nokia has pledged to make NFC a standard feature of its Symbian smartphones this year.

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They built their distillery, El Ranchito, on the edge of their 800-acre mountainside field in Arandas where they have been Tequileros for 3 generations.

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Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.

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In another example, Cognizant built an app for an insurance company enabling their field organization to provide real-time price quotes.

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