Water hyacinth grows into a thick bed of waxy leaves and violet flowers that cover the surface of the lake.
Using a similar approach, the firm wants to cover the surface of a bottle with hydrophilic (water-attracting) and hydrophobic (water-repellent) materials.
The result is that any coating, such as an antibacterial layer, would be "self-repairing" after small amounts of damage, as the molecular chains just below the damaged layer re-cover the surface.
By design, it should be impossible to miss when you try and attach a keyboard cover to the Surface.
According to The Huffington Post, the plants are expected to grow quickly and will eventually cover the entire surface of the billboard.
It feels restrictive when transitioning from a full-sized keyboard, or even from the roomy Surface Touch Cover.
But now we're getting more into the terms of the, you know, the cover issues, the surface issues, and I think that we need to understand more of what's lying underneath it.
To test its productivity chops we opted to go for the more tactile Type Cover than the Touch Cover we focused on in the Surface RT review, making this feel more like a laptop.
Oceans cover about 70% of the surface.
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The pictures also cover Sony's plans to add a lightweight keyboard to its next tablet, similar to Microsoft's Surface plans, but with some Smart Cover-esque kickstand skills thrown in for good measure.
They are known as the "high seas" and they cover 50 percent of the Earth's surface.
Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of the world's marine fish species, and cover 1 percent of the Earth's surface, making them the largest single living structure on Earth.
Since oceans cover two-thirds of the Earth's surface, it's more likely debris will hit water than land.
The islands natural surface and ground-water resources can only cover about 10% of the demand at present.
The Surface keyboard will be part of its Touch Cover, which is connected with magnets and flips open.
The Microsoft Surface is a tablet with a keyboard touch cover meant to live somewhere between a laptop and a tablet.
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Nasa spokesman Don Savage said they were not clear about what caused the Mars Polar Lander to disappear as it approached the Martian surface and rejected the earlier claims of a cover-up.
Fortunately, this means we finally get to say goodbye to the pebble look and feel: the edges are straighter from top to bottom, giving our fingers more surface to grasp onto, and the back cover fits flat on the faux-chrome edge instead of curving around it like waves of the ocean.
Kakadu is just one, albeit one of the biggest, of Australia's 516 national parks and 2, 700 designated conservation areas that together cover about 7.5% of the continent's land surface.
This has allowed scientists to retrieve information about the Arctic Ocean region's gravity field, its surface circulation, and the thickness of its sea-ice cover.
Between the keyboard cover attachment and the integrated kickstand, Microsoft has clearly focused on differentiating the Surface by addressing these issues.
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What strikes me is the way that personal issues can now bubble up to the surface, be spread swiftly by the media, and send candidates running for cover.
Microsoft even has its own line of Surface tablets that blur the line between PC and laptop thanks to a clever snap-on keyboard cover.
The Greenland ice sheets cover 1.7m square km an area only a little smaller than Mexico and the surface of the ice rises to an altitude of 3km.
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