About 40 large blocks of a rubber-like substance, believed to be from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean, have washed up on European coasts.
If you dig your foot into the surface and remove some of the clay, you will notice that the underlying surface is a hard rubber-like mat.
The company has created a slim bracelet, the UP band, that contains a wealth of sensors and a rechargeable battery all attached to a flexible steel frame enclosed in a special, rubber-like coating.
The nanotubes are mixed into a compound called "bucky gel" to prevent clumping, and after some rubber-like flourinated copolymer is mixed in and it's all poured onto a glass plate, holes are punched in the material to better flexibility.
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Perhaps it just goes to show that in business, strange things happen - like a rubber boot maker becoming mobile phone company number one.
But Berwick is expected to preside over evolutionary changes whereby the public program becomes less of a rubber-stamp payer and more like an HMO where claims can be rejected.
The complex is a patchwork of various connected buildings added over the years, filled with a warren of hallways and quirky features such as the World of Rubber museum, conveyor belt-like "speed ramps" that were Goodyear-made hybrids of escalators and moving walkways, and a room filled with models of Goodyear plants.
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While traction batteries are heavy, and mass is bad for acceleration and agility, the lower center-of-gravity often compensates with higher levels of cornering, especially when a car wears rubber like the Signature Performance edition's sticky 21-inch summer tires.
To encourage this shift, they issued a raft of incentives for forest conservation, such as tax breaks for non-timber forest products like rubber, palm hearts and nuts.
Despite sharing some aesthetic similarities with the former gadget -- like a dotted LED display, USB clasp and soft-touch rubber coating -- LG's model has a few more tricks up its sleeve.
Adapting a trick from the hi-fi industry, which often poises speakers and turntables on stiletto-like feet, the 4.4-pound drive rests on four slim rubber pads to prevent transferring residual jitter to your desk.
He anchored the boat on the shore and tied on a 6-inch Castaic swimbait, a big soft rubber lure that looked exactly like a trout.
The hybrid design which Mr Jubb has come up with uses a solid fuel called hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, a form of synthetic rubber used to make things like aircraft tyres.
Beneath it too, sweating like a trooper in a thick body-stocking of foam rubber, was Ben Chapman.
They have helped test the impact of nonlethal munitions like plastic and rubber bullets and have helped determine the best kind of footwear for land-mine clearance teams.
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