He said: "I would not want a metal on metal hip replacement" preferring instead to go for ceramic on ceramic.
But Lycett crowns his design with a majestic domed cover whose pierced and ramified lily-pad repeat and overall shape closely reproduce the shape and ornament of a Turkish incense burner that had been illustrated in a French treatise on ceramic history published in 1873.
The designer's modern, minimal creations furnish the narrow, two-storey cafe, and a few of his works are also on sale, including a ceramic coffee roaster shaped like a gourd that works on an ordinary gas range, should you be inspired to brew your own perfect cup.
Calfo said the metal implant had been designed to improve on plastic and ceramic implants.
The new outerwear features the same ceramic powder used on stealth bombers to shield and disseminate heat and thus remain, well, stealth.
The elder victim was seriously injured when pieces of ceramic sink were dropped on his head.
The game is played with 49 glass or ceramic marbles grouped together on a 2m-diameter concrete cylinder raised 7cm off the ground and covered in sand.
They have welcomed plans for a ceramic academy in Stoke-on-Trent "in principle" but urged one of the big pottery firms in the area to help to teach traditional pottery skills.
Recently a company from Utah called Millenniata has introduced an optical disc technology utilizing a disc in which the data is etched (or engraved) into a ceramic substrate rather than stamped on plastic like conventional optical discs.
Currently on display are Vineyard's ceramic works -- misshapen animals and bowls built around the idea of "wabi-sabi", a Japanese aesthetic celebrating the beauty of imperfection and impermanence.
Smart Sonic Receiver technology transmits clear audio quality to the user through vibrations in the handset's display screen - a technology based on Kyocera's proprietary advanced ceramic technology.
Dr Claus has already used this process to make a flexible kind of photovoltaic cell, made from alternating polymer and ceramic layers, that can be sewn on the outside of a tent.
The town is quaint in that ceramic-roof, cane-rocker-on-the-porch kind of way and the hospitality of Cuban guajiros (countryfolk) is unsurpassed.
ClearOhm material is based on metal nano-wires, not a ceramic like ITO.
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Studies using a simulator to mimic the stress put on the joint in real life show the ceramic head remains smooth and undamaged throughout the lifetime of the joint.
Corning, which makes the ceramic substrates for catalytic converters, had been working on a filter for diesel passenger cars, which are popular in Europe.
There was a flowerpot filled with edible mulch, from which we "harvested" carrots and radishes, a ceramic egg containing two tiny smoked quail eggs nestled on a bed of smoldering hay.
Children in Stoke-on-Trent are being challenged to design their own ceramic tile - to become a permanent reminder of the London 2012 Olympics.
It seems an unlikely selection, but my choice would be a 48-year-old from Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, who started his working life making ceramic toilet roll handles.
Stashed on the front of Curiosity, underneath foil covers, are five ceramic blocks spiked with artificial organic compounds.
There's a cast iron Boston Terrier doorstop. (A gift from me on her last birthday.) There's even a miniature ceramic Christmas tree enwreathed in Boston Terriers instead of tinsel.
Other Biennial-related highlights include Bertrand Ivanoff's neon installations on the old Orthodox Palestinian Christian Church and Johan Tahon's milky ceramic figures set in a 15th-century tiled kiosk in walls of the Topkapi Palace.
The High Performance Chronograph on the other hand is offered with a black or white dial in a matte black ceramic case.
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Born in England's pottery center, Staffordshire, and trained as a ceramic painter and gilder in the renowned Copeland (formerly Spode) potteries of Stoke-on-Trent, Lycett (1833-1910) emigrated to New York in 1861.
People were initially able to walk on and pick up the "seeds" but this was soon banned after concerns over the amount of ceramic dust created.
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