Designers can type in descriptors such as "sharpness" or "acceleration" (which refers to a curve's severity) and watch as the lines of a sports car or tea kettle automatically undulate.

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She puts water in the tea kettle, gets the treat, pets the dog, and decides to throw the dog bed covers into the wash, and realizes the wet load in the washer has to be hung on the line (yes, she even hung her laundry in the sun).

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Once again she returns to the kitchen to make her cup of tea and realizes she never turned the stove on to boil the water in the tea kettle, so she turns the dial and adjusts the flame, grabs an apple and a stack of mail that needs attention and heads back into her office and back to me.

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Two-yearold twins Mohamed and Amal occasionally stray to help themselves to cups of tea from a kettle that sits in the corner of the room.

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Served in a traditional Turkish tulip glass, the smoky flavoured black tea comes from an old kettle and costs as little as 1 Turkish Lira.

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She measured tea into a strainer, plugged in the kettle, and opened the refrigerator.

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Nana put on a kettle to boil some water for an herbal tea called Sweet Dreams.

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Indeed, on the tiny residential scale think about how much energy is wasted when you heat up a whole kettle of water to make just one cup of tea.

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