The aerosol can, the Jeep, plastic bottles (even orange juice) ~ all products that have come to us, either directly or indirectly, via the battlefield. One new invention will allow soldiers, and maybe one day the rest of us (if we ever trust it enough!), to get drinking water from diesel fuel: http://blogs.forbes.com/williampentland/2011/04/12/military-turns-diesel-exhaust-into-water/ (Ignore the redundancy in the next-to-last paragraph.)
This is actually something different companies have been working on for a while. (See http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,78169,00.html, from 2005.)
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