Thanks to the incredible longevity of the Star Wars brand, kids today are nearly as hungry for plastic light sabers and X-wing flight simulators as they were in the 1980s.
They look heavy and bulky, but hard thin plastic is quite light, and they are certainly protective.
Ten fire crews were sent to Glinwell Nursery, Hatfield Road at around 12:00 GMT as thousands of plastic trays caught light.
Despite being all plastic and fairly light in hand, it had the 'solid' feeling we're used too with Nokia, so we reckon it can take a hit or two.
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They made the device from a photoactive plastic that converts infrared light into an electrical current.
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Using a thin film of polyfluorene, a light-emitting plastic, they have created a laser which reacts with explosive vapour.
That's the trick performed by holographic disk drives, which record a series of 1-million-bit chunks of data as holographic "pages" inside a light-sensitive plastic medium.
Holographic images are created by reflecting light off carefully sculpted plastic surfaces.
Despite being light and enveloped in plastic, the Eluga holds steady in the hand, and there's no unseemly creak -- presumably due to the non-removable battery and waterproof shell.
Plastic circuitry promises as large a market as light-emitting polymers, but the technology is taking longer to commercialise.
The laser light dims within seconds when the plastic comes into contact with even the tiniest emission of vapour.
The bending creates a lensing effect in the same way that light is bent through glass or plastic in a microscope or your eyeglasses.
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Made of shatter-proof plastic, the Reflex LCD is ultra-thin and light.
Nasi Lemak Antarabangsa has a legion of devoted followers, many of whom turn up early (the place opens at 7.45 p.m. and closes at 11 a.m.) and sit patiently at plastic-covered tables, waiting for the management to shed light on matters by switching on the fluorescent tubes overhead.
New this year is a three-storey circular light installation entitled Rising Moon, made from 7, 000 plastic bottles and other recyclable materials floating on a pool of water in Victoria Park.
You might argue, for instance, that the S5's plastic keyboard deck and bezel are part of the reason it weighs a light 1.35kg (2.98 pounds), but the Series 9 is made of unibody aluminum and still weighs about four-tenths of a pound less.
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As the elevator light moved from sixth to fifth, I slid my hand underneath the plastic shroud.
The output is then relayed into a 1.4 mm thick plastic waveguide lens with input and output hologram structures on the surface which squeezes the light down the waveguide and then two dimensionally expands the image back into the user's eye, creating an image that is then mixed into the real world.
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We also discovered some new names, like Nigerian-born portraitist Toyin Odutola, 27, painter and sculptor Lucien Smith, 23, and Artie Vierkant, 26, a digital artist who makes abstract pieces suffused with light and bright colors, using Photoshop, a large-scale printer and pieces of layered plastic.
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Like their big brothers, these have an occasional plastic feel to some moving parts, but the reward for tolerating that is the pleasure of carrying around very light binoculars.
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