Initially, the idea was to use plastic flexible displays (as evidenced by previous XO 3.0 renders), but degradation caused by the sun's UV rays and plastic's easily scratched surface forced the company to switch gears and use glass instead.
The use of cellulose and cardanol, both plant resources, as the plastic's primary components produces a plastic that features a high plant component ratio of more than 70%.
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"We wanted to highlight the optical qualities of plastic, " said IDEO's Caroline Flagiello, who serves as Plastic Logic's acting creative director.
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As an alternative to petroleum-based components, cellulose is the plastic's major ingredient.
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Making PLA from petrochemicals, the leading source of the carbon that lies at the heart of plastic's makeup, is too costly and complicated.
One photon in a million comes away with a different frequency from the one that it arrived with because it changes the structure of a chemical bond in one of the plastic's molecules.
The unique plastic displays are produced in Plastic Logic's world-first commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.
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Holding it in your hand, you can tell the Samsung phone's plastic parts are a bit cheaper than Apple's luxury glass-and-metal components.
But it's the little white plastic dongle that's the star of this show, through the power of sheer ubiquity, popping up in coffee shops and taxicabs everywhere.
The secret to the screens is in what's behind them: a thin strip of metal-coated plastic that's only 50 microns thick -- about half the width of a human hair -- and wraps around a spool.
Unfortunately, it's harder to love the goofy faux-wood texture that's been baked into the plastic -- it's very much like bad 80s rec room wallpaper.
They even bring silverware to a nearby coffeehouse to avoid using the shop's plastic utensils.
But Plastic Logic's and iRex's devices push e-paper development beyond simply reading letter-sized PDFs, says Wilcox.
's plastic additives division, which brought on some phosphate-based flame retardants to diversify away from bromine.
It's plastic bags, now banned to protect the environment and the lives of animals and fish.
Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
Plastic Logic's mission is to lead a revolution in the way people acquire, organize and consume information.
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The official version of events said he died under the plastic surgeon's scalpel while trying to change his identity.
His company's plastic is just as tight and "much better quality, " he says.
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Agents can also share their Mobile Business Cards wirelessly with Near Field Communication (NFC) using Vizibility's plastic Mobile Wallet Card.
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The device features clever business tools like document annotation and BlackBerry synching, and a durable all-plastic screen that is Plastic Logic's proprietary technology.
First, the scent must give off an inviting bloom from the bottle's plastic cap, to win over a shopper sniffing in the store aisle.
Because the bags are not bio-degradable it is a fair bet that some of them pre-date the Republic of Ireland's plastic bags tax, introduced 11 years ago.
The patented plastic display technology in QUE has been 10 years in development, since Plastic Logic's founding by researchers from the renowned University of Cambridge (UK) Cavendish Labs.
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He won't understand what the connection is, but the feeling that it exists will compel him to undress, walk to the closet, and pull the dry cleaner's plastic from his tuxedo.
TrueStar's plastic is "very crude and loose, " he says.
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Unsurprisingly, the wheel made from a smooth and sturdy feeling plastic that's similar to what you'll find on the PS3 slim, so despite the size we'd place it in the "light" category, as far weight goes.
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Thanks to accelerometers, gyroscopes and buttons in odd places, users can do things such as bring up in-game sights by looking down the plastic rifle's barrel, or steady their shot by pulling the faux weapon close to their arm.
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