But it will be hard to make plastic jewelry into the kind of phenomenon that the plastic watch was in 1982.

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It was a plastic watch offered in a wild rainbow range of colors comprising just fifty-one parts and powered by a battery and a quartz crystal.

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

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The watch's screen will be made of plastic and it will run on solar energy, making it less likely to malfunction or run out of power in a tense scenario.

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Plastic is ubiquitous but there are two chemicals in it to watch out for when it comes to what your body ingests.

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Another formidable competitor is Swatch Group, better known for the cheap plastic watches that helped save Switzerland when the quartz revolution looked as if it would relocate the entire watch industry to the Far East.

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Girls from 3 to 5 can watch a newly released Fairytopia video and then buy dolls dressed as characters from the movie and plastic replicas of the sets.

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