Six months ago Josh Stevens found himself being led through the streets of Chicago in a horse-drawn carriage, wearing nothing but a suit made of paper.
Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.
It unveiled first-person shooter Killzone: Mercenary, an extension to a popular franchise, and Tearaway, an adventure game set in a world made of paper, developed by Media Molecule - the team behind the best-selling LittleBigPlanet.
The concern over kids damaging the devices only makes sense if we forget they already get books made of simple paper that have to be replaced constantly because of wear and tear anyway.
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Tearaway takes place in a 3D world made entirely of paper.
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Now he says that about 45% of his portfolio is made up of vintage paper financial documents.
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At no time in history has it lost its appeal as a store of value and, in fact, it represented the universal money until nation governments and warfare made the creation of paper money a necessity.
Maybe the Catholic church will turn in their gold for a chalis made out of fiat paper.
Every April, female silkworm farmers adorn themselves with colourful flowers made of silk or paper and make harvest offerings as part of the Silkworm Flower festival.
The two researchers built their transistors by coating both sides of a sheet of paper with semiconductors made of oxides of zinc, gallium and indium, rather than silicon.
While Tate Britain is showing his most famous industrial scenes, many of the Lowry's exhibits are art school sketches, preparatory drawings or visual aid memoires he made on scraps of paper while walking the streets of Salford and Manchester.
Some of the best coverage of indigenous affairs, to use that unlovely phrase, is to been found in the pages of the Australian, and the paper made much of the running during the wrongful detention of the Indian doctor, Muhamed Hanif.
They are also testing paper made of fruits, vegetables and dung from other animals.
Serious collectors keep theirs in folders or envelopes made of acid-free paper.
Since 1986, he has made a thorough study of paper-tube technology and has been struck by the medium's cheapness, strength and adaptability.
Remember the Netscapes, he exhorts, the high-tech stars that gained fans, made paper millionaires of the early staff and then burned up in the heat of competition.
It sounds like an unlikely match: Crane has been printing cards and stationery on paper made of 100 percent cotton since 1801 in Dalton, Mass.
To prepare her for it, Lesia made paper dolls of all the main characters, and together they acted out the story and listened to the music.
And Koetsu's calligraphies on sheets of paper pasted together, paper made in the subtlest imaginable tints and textures, a salmon pink abutting the most delicate smoky blue, display a sensibility that seems an etherealized version of Georges Braque's.
It is made of black and white rice paper and sewn into the bodice are laser-cut buttons.
Entirely legally as well: as long as no copies of the paper made it into England or Wales that is.
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Mr Messier found that the photographic paper was made of wood pulp not rags, a sure sign that it was made after the 1930s.
In anticipation of the gloriously grisly event, stores and markets fill with miniature coffins, skulls and skeletons made of chocolate, marzipan, paper, cardboard or clay.
Papyri, the forerunner of modern paper, is sheets of laminated material made from thin strips of the Cyprus Papyrus plant.
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The paper was made up of parts of previous O-level and GCSE exam papers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Other food containers made from certain types of plastics and paper products are recyclable and already widely used, a mayor's spokeswoman added.
Mark Rachesky, a Wall Street investor who likes to stay under the radar, has made a paper fortune this year off of Twilight and another hit movie, The Hunger Games, thanks to his own investment saga that saw him take on his mentor, the billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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Paper cups cannot be made out of scrap and must be marketed, not just sold on price.
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