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As part of our focus on innovation, CNN is honoring 10 new inventions in technology and related fields. These are gadgets or prototypes with big, game-changing potential: to power villages in the ...

they contributed nothing to laptop technology. In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented.

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