On his shelves, he has a plastic model of a Ford Mustang, another model he worked on.
When he was in grade school, his father, a civil engineer, bought him and his older brother a plastic model river with running water.
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Layers of muscle and skin were added by computer to a scan of the skull and the result was made into a three-dimensional plastic model.
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Not far from the iMac stands an aluminium and plastic model of a rollercoaster designed by Jim Seay of Premier Rides in Millersville Maryland, a skeletal variation on the iMac's organic curves.
Or she could pop to the 99p Store in Camden High Street where she had once found, among the giant shampoo bottles and unseasonal Christmas decorations, a plastic model Cyberman exactly right for a grandchild.
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La Jetee, named after the 1962 Chris Marker sci-fi film, is a gathering place for disciples of French cinema and the Nouvelle Vague movement, while at Bar Plastic Model, punters can wear Mario hats and play old Nintendo 64 video games.
Some of these are then fed into a prototyping machine, made by Objet of Israel, that can produce a 3-D model in lightweight plastic in minutes.
The improved bass and low-mid response we noted in our review falls in line with iFixit's confirmation that the new driver in each Pod is made with a paper speaker cone -- in contrast to the plastic used on the older model.
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Unlike the earlier model, it recognises the plastic that it is pointed at in a tenth of a second.
If Apple were to offer a iPhone model that returns to a plastic housing, that could boost demand for plastic suppliers such as Eastman Chemical (EMN), Dow Chemical (DOW) and Cytec Industries (CYT), to name a few.
Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
The printers follow the shape of the model by stacking layer upon layer of molten plastic to produce the items.
Sadly, the clean, classy matte finish of the Slim model has been replaced with the glossy, fingerprint-prone plastic that Vita, PSP and first-gen PS3 owners have come to know and loathe.
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Unfortunately, the plastic mock-up has always been a non-working, gutless model with little more than a glossy screen and backlight to demonstrate the form factor Intel's gunning for with its future Moorestown Mobile Internet Devices.
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With this early model, the laser had to be set on low power to stop the plastic overheating, or even catching fire.
Feeney keeps a toy model of the Terminator in his office, along with hundreds of other familiar 10-inch plastic characters.
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