Instead of a plastic card for a bank, we could have a plastic card with a bank.
This is London, where not that long ago, a good show meant you got a plastic chair under a tent.
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But then a colleague at his Atlanta investment company, Convex Group, passed him a plastic lid with a coupon attached to it in August 2002.
While he waits, a chain-smoking captain, Salih Yilmaz, busies himself with a plastic bottle and a piece of string, fishing for calamari to serve in his restaurant.
Widely promoted this year is the Potty Putter, a floor mat in the shape of a tiny putting green, with a plastic cup and flag and a miniature putter.
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When we reviewed the original ClamCase, we found a few flaws that kept it from being a homerun: a cramped keyboard, a mediocre plastic build and a cumbersome power switch.
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As a translator, I constituted quite enough of a danger, but as a plastic surgeon, I would be a positive public menace, since I displayed an alarming lack of anatomical precision.
This sale includes two lots of sharks, a calf, a black sheep, a zebra and four skinned cows' heads, as well as a pony dressed up with a plastic narwhal horn to look like a unicorn.
Take away a pie and a plastic spoon for a sunset picnic at the waterfront Louis Valentino Jr Park, once home to Fort Defiance, which protected Manhattan from British ships in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.
The way it works: consumers touch a payment device (which is in the form of either a plastic card or a sticker that can be applied to a mobile phone or any personal item) to a Zip-enabled contactless reader to make a payment.
He was given four sheets, four towels, a blanket, a bedroll, a toothbrush, toilet paper, a tall clear plastic cup, a bar of soap, seven white T-shirts, seven pairs of boxer shorts, seven pairs of socks, plastic slippers, a pad of paper, and a ballpoint pen.
Lest you think I'm one of those injustice-collecting urban paranoids with a tinfoil hat and a plastic bag containing a brisket and a manifesto in tiny handwriting, a New York crazy who has a problem with everybody and everything, I should mention that I grew up with -- and adored -- a dog of my very own.
But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
Earlier this week Wilson posted a video online showing a single shot being fired from "The Liberator, " a plastic handgun that, with the exception of a metal firing pin and a piece of metal included to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act, was assembled entirely from parts made with a 3-D printer.
Passengers notice it far less if an airline switches a sandwich for a packet of biscuits and a plastic cup of coffee, he says.
At any rate, for what it's worth, as both a stay at home mother until my sons were in high school and then a four-day-a week office manager to a plastic surgeon I have experienced both sides of the equation.
The use of cellulose and cardanol, both plant resources, as the plastic's primary components produces a plastic that features a high plant component ratio of more than 70%.
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The company's main product, a mushroom-growing kit, is a cardboard box that houses a plastic bag filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spawn.
You can actually make a strong case that the built-in security measures of a service like Google Wallet make it far more secure than a traditional plastic credit card in a leather case.
Answer: A -- A plastic six-pack holder takes 450 years to disintegrate.
When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.
To make a gadget called the Can Pump N' Pour, a circular hard plastic ring with a rubber cover that keeps the fizz in opened soda cans, Davison engineers went through 30 different versions with its own moldmaking machines before getting the shape right.
To make a memory from the protein, Dr Birge suspends elements made from it in a transparent plastic cube known as a cuvette.
In reality, the phone was, of course, not a phone at all, but a slab of glass surrounded by a plastic frame.
And now, 30 years later, a new Bolivian government, in a new Latin America, finds his grave, digs him up and returns him, in a plastic box, for reburial in a grand mausoleum in Cuba.
TOHL, which stands for Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics, has developed a simple method to deliver fresh water for emergency relief: install a really long plastic tube with a helicopter.
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Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
At the base of the cardboard backboard is a black plastic box with a pair of small orange switches on it.
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This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).
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With the help of a machinist, and using a formula he concocted for a stiff, self-lubricating plastic, Fenelon built a crude prototype of the gear and found that the torque required to push the window was half of what the old design required.
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