But that doesn't prevent TaylorMade from coming out each year with special "Season Opener" bags for its players to use during the tournament, each done up in the Masters' well-known green, white and yellow color scheme.

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These use light waves to scan individual green beans, which are rejected by a puff of air if they show up as defective.

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Taking photos and videos in low-light situations has always involved some kind of tradeoff: you can either crank up the ISO and reduce image quality significantly, use something like Sony's NightShot and add that alien green tint to everything, or trust your image stabilizer to go from wacky-blurry to just pretty-blurry.

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In the lab Raade picks up paper cups containing globs of green and black glass, two promising mixtures that Halotechnics hopes eventually to use in a prototype energy storage system the company plans to bring online in 2015.

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