The motherboard has rubber covered holes in which you can easily route the cables behind the motherboard.

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The technology was initially developed at NASA in the 1960s, first as thick Mylar balloons and later as rubber bladders covered in Kevlar.

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Diehr, in which the Supreme Court upheld a patent for curing synthetic rubber that covered the process of checking temperatures and pressures and adjusting them according to a set of specified parameters.

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Also on the bottom is an audio input, covered by a rubber door.

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As far as tough goes the handset's corners are wrapped in rubber with the connections in between covered with anodized aluminum.

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They may have swapped their Orange Julius cups for Jamba Juice , they may favor those rubber Silly Banz bracelets over blazers covered in pins and buttons, but teens in 2010 are facing a mirror image of the jobs environment in 1982.

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The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.

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What makes the Commando different is its thick black plastic shell, a 3.6-inch touchscreen covered with Corning's extra-tough Gorilla Glass and a micro-USB port sealed with a rubber gasket.

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