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Avery's remaining businesses include pressure-sensitive materials used for labels on plastic bottles and other containers for consumer products as well as a manufacturing garment labels and tags.
3M to Gain Broader Presence in Office-Supply Sector Bob Tita 2012
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Pasadena, Calif.-based Avery in October reported that third-quarter profit sank 22% because of falling demand in its labels business, though revenue rose in its pressure-sensitive materials unit.
3M to Gain Broader Presence in Office-Supply Sector Bob Tita 2012
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Commanders at the base told Mr. Panetta that insurgents use pressure-sensitive plates, wall-mounted explosives and remote-controlled devices to try to kill U.S. and Afghan forces on patrol.
As Improvised Explosive Devices Evolve, Soldiers Work to Find New Methods to Detect Them Adam Entous 2011
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For example: will pressure-sensitive stylus input ever happen?
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It has dual cameras, an optional Bluetooth MeMic phone extender, and a stylus and pressure-sensitive screen, combining the functionality of a smartphone and a tablet.
Asus confirms Honeycomb tablets, smartphone Hayley Tsukayama 2011
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London's best gimmick can be found at Selfridges, where sonic artist Russ Jones, aka Condiment Junkie, has installed a series of custom-made musical boxes linked to pressure-sensitive spots on the windows themselves, allowing shoppers to "wind up" the mechanism and release the circling chimes of old British carols.
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This diversity of models corresponds to a very versatile application range of the carton sealing tape, since the pressure-sensitive adhesive technologies truly make the rule nowadays in most industrial sectors.
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Attached to the uDraw by a thin cable (it clips into the underside like the Wii Remote) is a chunky, pencil-shaped stylus, with a pressure-sensitive tip.
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The team then laid nano-scale transistors on top, followed by a flexible, pressure-sensitive rubber.
Touch, though, is widely acknowledged to be the biggest obstacle | clusterflock 2010
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And then the development community started reverse engineering it and discovered it had all these other capabilities, like an infrared camera, an expansion port, and pressure-sensitive buttons — and it hooked up to a computer relatively easily.
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