Also, I take excessive pleasure in returning several months' worth of our own empties at once, feeding them into our supermarket's can, glass and plastic recycling machines and departing with a heroic amount of cash sometimes as much as seven or eight dollars that I can spend on anything I want.
Both machines use black plastic for the top and bottom surfaces and for the area surrounding the ports.
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By the end of the year, for example, machines capable of scanning bombs and plastic explosives in luggage are required to be installed by every major American airport.
Both EOS and Stratasys, a company based in Minneapolis which makes 3D printers that employ plastic-deposition technology, use their own machines to print parts that are, in turn, used to build more printers.
They've put advertising on their vending machines and even on the tiny earplug plastic case, along with marketing schemes using mobile phone codes to direct consumers to web sites to view more products.
So far these machines have been used mainly to make detailed plastic models based on computer designs.
Mind you, textures are all those crocs sacrificed, as like the company's earlier Crocodile-themed machines these lappys are still made entirely of plastic and bits of silicon -- just grooved and pigmented to look like prehistoric, genetically modified reptiles (check out the detail pic after the break).
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Some confused the wrapping machines for mailboxes and inserted letters in the slit that the plastic came out of.
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We like these things so much, that imparting them into hunks of chips and plastic may be one of the great motives among researchers trying to build emotions into machines.
Many of the conventional, yet affordable, machines turned out great models, but often with the tell-tale lines of the incremental plastic layering.
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Knapp can see a time not so far in the future when even taxi drivers will take plastic, as they do in London, punching them into meters that double as a card-reading machines.
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