These include the Excite Pure, Excite Pro and Excite Write, and while they share the same plastic design, 10-inch form factor, ports and Android 4.2 OS, they each offer something a little different on the inside.
We didn't have a great deal of info about this ultraportable when we went hands-on at Computex 2011, but we knew we liked its thin bezel and Air-like (though plastic) design.
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As you can see in our hands-on shots below, it's essentially the same plastic-and-metal design as earlier Inspiron Ultrabooks, though that touchscreen is of course new.
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IBM's design involved feeding small plastic wafers into a heated pump that melted them and pushed the goo through an extruder.
Dow's engineers came up with a design calling for three plastic parts to do the same work as the 153 metal parts in the traditional mower.
The press release says "The traditional Swatch plastic case comes in a new chunky design and an extra-large size".
Designed through a unique collaboration between Plastic Logic and IDEO, the QUE design was inspired by black and white print-a communications standard that is both classic and timeless.
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There are some nice flourishes to its design, such as the silvery plastic grill along its back bottom, but that's about as impressive as this one gets.
The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.
The design includes 26 centimeters-round compact plastic gear wheels and a small generator.
Vaguely reminiscent of the original's dash design, the Beetle deploys a body-colored plastic fascia on the dash and doors, matching a surround piece on the steering wheel.
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The design is simple: it's just a plastic shell with a shutter button, a dial for controlling shutter speed and a hand grip -- the sort you'd normally find on a compact camera.
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The design recalls the iPod mini but is made of white plastic instead of aluminum.
It has a nice amount of tension when flicked, but its chrome-finished plastic feels decidedly cheap compared the rest of the camera's design.
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Now, as it brings its first 10-inch tablet to market, Huawei is borrowing a few key design elements -- namely, that mix of white plastic and chrome.
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We happened to see it in person at a CES-related event here in Vegas, and our quick assessment is that the screen is responsive, and the design chintzy. (Just look at that tacky plastic.) In addition to that 1080p display, it packs a 1.7GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip along with a TI multicore OMAP processor.
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Aside from crude Rockette-based jokes, we know very little about what the GS IV is purportedly packing, but hopes of a drastic shift away from the company's plastic-heavy designs were dimmed somewhat by the "more of the same" design featured on the Note 8.0.
With a green-centric design, this compact and sleek PC mini uses up to 90% less plastic and consumes up to 90% less energy than traditional tower PCs.
Design-wise, the 8-inch MID 8065 and 9-inch 9760 have the same plastic construction as the 7-inch one, albeit with higher-res screens.
While plastic shells are already sold commercially for pet hermit crabs, Project Shellter adds a twist by letting people worldwide design their own.
One of his current challenges is to design a metal case for a cellular phone, which may appeal to environmentally conscious consumers who disapprove of plastic.
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