The interior gets softer materials instead of hard plastic as well as silver, satin and chrome-plated accents.
Shoes made of hard plastic may improve matters, especially as they can be glued rather than nailed on to hooves.
Each holding a calculator in their hand, the customer types in a number, each strong keystroke resonating against the hard plastic.
On top, you'll find a propulsion fan assembly, just behind a hard plastic electronics compartment that houses internals like the Arduino board.
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The gauntlet's hard plastic shell is even roomy enough to add GPS equipment, biometrics, chemical sensors, or other embedded additions, as needed.
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Kris Hedstrom, the director of CHEP's Innovation Center, which adjoins the plant, is wearing earplugs, protective glasses and hard plastic shoe covers over his toes.
Interior surfaces are a notch above those in other budget Honda models, with the hard plastic surfaces softened to the touch by a rubbery coating.
Linters are also used in the production of cellulose and viscose, which turns up in toothbrushes, ballpoint pens, picnic cups, and almost any item made of hard plastic.
She said the hardest things to recycle were soft plastic such as packaging contaminated with food as well as hard plastic such as broken toys that no one would want.
Flip the tab onto its belly and you'll come face-to-face with the grippy, hard plastic that plays host to an extraneous bit of Lenovo branding and the slate's 5-megapixel camera module.
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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.
Most are simple designs, essentially a pen with a rubber tip that mimics the conductive property and shape of a fingertip. (Steer clear of styluses with fine, hard plastic tips, which are designed for older gadgets like the PalmPilot and won't work with today's touch screens).
It's not well-known or even thought about but ever since Leo Hendricks unveiled the first fully synthetic moldable hard plastic called Bakelite to the American Chemical Society in 1909, except for a very small percentage that has been incinerated, every single molecule of plastic ever manufactured still exists somewhere in our environment.
They look heavy and bulky, but hard thin plastic is quite light, and they are certainly protective.
But it will be hard to make plastic jewelry into the kind of phenomenon that the plastic watch was in 1982.
It was duly swapped for a small plastic chair that looked hard and uncomfortable, but was more to her liking, taking to it like a fakir to a bed of nails.
Not only does the package include inserts for cutting through the plastic, but it highlights the product's unique presentation controls by offering a rotating plastic pod that functions as a hard carrying case once the product is unpacked.
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It is hard to see Boil Fashion becoming a challenger to Zara or Zhejiang Best Plastic becoming a global leader in its signature product, wallpaper.
Former Dallas star Victoria Principal learned that lesson the hard way following her divorce last year from her husband of 21 years, Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Harry Glassman.
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