These are boxes that sit between the plug and the device, or are sometimes integrated with the plug.
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These are boxes containing air that is super-saturated with water vapour.
Because the market is not interested, the billion dollar market becomes the million dollar market, the floors are saturated with these boxes and the next new ones cost even less.
These are called secret boxes, or puzzles boxes, and each requires about one month to produce.
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"These boxes are really like having another compartment in your brain, " says Douglas Medema, an industrial design manager at Bissell, a Grand Rapids, Mich. maker of vacuum cleaners and an Inventables subscriber.
These minimalist boxes of striped pinewood are open for their third season and took five years to construct.
These products of Hakone are exquisitely designed wooden boxes with inlaid intricate images in complex patterns that mask the secret panels that are the key to eventually gaining access to the contents inside.
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The puzzle boxes are excellent tools for teaching these same skills to design engineers and are equally successful in captivating the minds of kids in real-world problem solving with a tangible reward for success.
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Happily (most of the time) these latter scolds are more often found in comment boxes than in parliaments.
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Other terms you may have seen or other acronyms you may have seen are RSS, and you'll see these little orange boxes maybe that says XML or RSS on your favorite websites, that stands for really simple syndication, which is what this reader.google.com site does.
Unless you are in open terrain, it's hard not to find one of these boxes around.
Closets, basement and garage These out-of-the-way spaces are typically crammed with hidden treasures: abandoned crafts projects, boxes of vinyl records and worn-out sports equipment.
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