Michael set off down the mountain with the camera and the small, soft plastic football.
But most disturbing to Lamson are a couple of soft plastic bottles with bite marks.
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The rear, made in part from soft plastic, covers slots for the microSD and SIM (not micro-SIM) slots, but there's no battery access.
Riddell established the company in 1927, but it was not until 1939 that its first soft plastic-shell football helmet was released to the public.
She said the hardest things to recycle were soft plastic such as packaging contaminated with food as well as hard plastic such as broken toys that no one would want.
We're also worried that a slate PC designed like this won't have a way of protecting the screen from the sharp poky objects that sometimes accidentally make their way into our bag -- we'd feel much more secure with some sort of scratchproof glass up front instead of this soft plastic finish.
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The 5-megapixel camera and LED flash are both housed in a soft grey plastic panel similar to the removable cap at the base.
The phone's back is soft touch plastic -- the mini is a smooth plastic, by contrast -- and the face is the glossiest finish imaginable.
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Phthalates have long been used as a way to make plastic soft and flexible.
Though the 101 XS' soft lines and plastic body don't provide much eye candy, we must say the device feels very good in the hand.
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In the case of our device, the plastic emerged with a green color, slowly turning black as it slid out like hot, plastic soft serve ice cream.
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The basic design is the same -- it's a chunky slab of thick, ribbed, soft-touch plastic and rubber, with a sizable chrome screw holding the backplate in place.
The finish is soft-touch plastic, and while it's not one piece of polycarbonate, Nokia's at least gone to some efforts to make it look slightly similar, and we're happy to play along.
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Interestingly enough, we discovered that there was not one but two models being showcased: the first, seen in the video below, has a textured back and is flanked by soft-touch plastic at both ends.
As far as comfort is concerned, chew on this -- out of the box, the Rat 9's completely coated in soft-touch plastic, and if you don't like that, you can swap for a pair of textured rubber palm and pinky grips instead.
In the "plaintiffs efforts to extricate the tea bag from its position of being wedged between the tilted paper 'hot cup' of extremely hot water and the shorter clear plastic soft drink cup, the extremely hot water spilled into her lap at her groin area, " the suit said.
On its back, two strips of soft-touch plastic break the back into segments: a removable bit up top that houses the 3.5mm headphone jack, a micro-SIM, a vacant microSD slot (the phone comes with 16GB of internal storage) and a fixed piece at the bottom, above which you'll find the Xperia logo.
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We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.
Material choices run the gamut between the cameras with soft touch plastics, plastic chrome accents and metals.
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Instead, it's coated in smooth soft-touch black plastic on the back and a textured version of the stuff on its sides.
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The Chelmsford factory was built in 1954 and makes soft drinks in cans, glass and plastic bottles.
The new windpipe was designed and fabricated from the same type of plastic that is used to make soft-drink and water bottles.
Starting at the back, the removable battery cover has a matte, almost soft-touch finish, save for a plastic section surrounding the camera lens and LED flash.
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The soft drink giant plans to collect and recycle the plastic bottles used at the games.
Anthony Missano, an executive at Sbarro, was looking for a way to attract teens to the pizza-and-pasta chain when a soft drink sales rep handed him a fountain drink with a mini music CD tucked inside the plastic lid.
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