This year, like every year in distant memory, I dutifully put on the plastic throwaway glasses to watch vertiginous 3D presentations.

CNN: How the Consumer Electronics Show lost its spark

By replacing the glass sheets with plastic, Rolltronics plans to manufacture a flexible version of this memory using a roll-to-roll process.

ECONOMIST: Just press print

The company originally intended to use the technology in portable memory drives, but creating larger screens out of plastic turned out to be a more economical and feasible venture, Taussig said.

CNN: HP developing a 'Dick Tracy' wristwatch

Secure Wrap claims its plastic is the only one in the world with "shrink memory" that causes it to pull back if it is cut, making it impossible to conceal tampering, says new business director Nicholas Valdespino, Daniel's brother.

WSJ: To Meet the Biggest Wrap Stars, Stroll Through the Miami Airport

The closest she could come was a memory of snorkeling, trying to draw in air from a plastic tube clogged with seaweed.

NPR: In 'Challenger Park,' Mom Is an Astronaut

To make a memory from the protein, Dr Birge suspends elements made from it in a transparent plastic cube known as a cuvette.

ECONOMIST: Bacterial protein can be used in computers