The ice cream is light, sweet and flavourful, the perfect accompaniment to the often-intense Cuban heat, and comes with a vanilla wafer-like cookie.

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Catering to local tastes, Kraft also made a radical move by launching new Oreo products like Oreo Wafer Sticks, Oreo Wafer Rolls, Oreo Soft Cakes and Oreo Strawberry Creme.

FORBES: Retail

Like the wafer-think Dell XPS 13 introduced earlier this year, both machines aim to balance some of the refinement that gives Apple its appeal, with a price low enough to give those thinking of ditching their Windows PC for a Mac pause.

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As if to prove his point, Ballmer also welcomed onstage program manager Janet Galore, who gave brief demos of some Microsoft product prototypes, including a tabletop-like touch screen and a flexible, wafer-thin digital screen you can roll up like a piece of paper.

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Conveyor belts carried long, wafer-thin strips of metal into printing-press-like rollers, which coated them with electrode-active material.

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Once we arrived at the world of Universal, I discovered that the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel looked strikingly like Portofino, Italy, with its Necco-wafer-colored Italian-ish buildings jammed together in front of a piazza with hollowed out Vespa scooters bolted to the ground.

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In a process similar to printing a photograph, engineers beam high-powered light through a mask-like image of the chip, creating a duplicate on a silicon wafer.

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