Dow's engineers came up with a design calling for three plastic parts to do the same work as the 153 metal parts in the traditional mower.
The button layout follows the Windows Phone template -- there's the trio of capacitive buttons below the screen, with three physical plastic buttons along the right edge.
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The machines aren't the humanoid contraptions many people conjure when they think of robots Lipson's robots consist of a stack of three white plastic cubes that stand as a simple tower.
Some mah song menacingly slice their tongues with axes, while others carry the frame of a child's three-wheeled plastic bike through holes in their skin.
Layers of muscle and skin were added by computer to a scan of the skull and the result was made into a three-dimensional plastic model.
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Police said they fired plastic bullets three times during Saturday's violence.
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C. nearly three years ago reduced the number of plastic bags ending up in the nearby Anacostia River by 60 percent and caused three-quarters of residents to cut their use of disposable bags, according to a follow-up survey.
This trend has affected plastic surgery in three other areas.
The MHRA said all-metal hips had a failure rate of about 12% after seven years, three times that of metal and plastic or ceramic hips.
The lightweight Dreamliner, with a composite-plastic fuselage, is about three years behind schedule.
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The Big Three automakers have heavily relied on Venture for plastic parts such as dashboards and bumpers.
While the situation at Venture deteriorates, the Big Three automakers might decide it's safer to get plastic parts elsewhere in the future.
What is very interesting about this particular idea is that the bottle features a set of three clever dials that allow you to track how many plastic bottles you DID NOT USE!
On the bottom are the three means of connectivity -- two ports and a tiny plastic window through which this thing's Bluetooth 4.0 antenna talks.
In Singapore, clients of the country's three largest banks use smart cards, while commuters pass the plastic through electronic readers to get on buses or commuter trains.
The familiar carrier bag hung on her wrist, containing one or two but never more than three pieces of fruit, the round forms pressing against the plastic.
Three days later she was found in an empty lot wrapped in plastic sheeting.
Three months later a colleague severed the ends of two fingers while feeding plastic into a packaging machine.
The outer layers are made of acrylic plastic and the vacuum chamber in the middle is divided into three or four watertight compartments stacked on top of one another.
In the three months to the end of September, the value of spending on plastic cards in the UK was 7.3% higher than the same period a year earlier, Apacs said.
About 20 people, in pairs or in groups of three, chained their arms together inside sections of drain pipes and other plastic tubing and lay down on the road in front of the north gate, while eight other people did the same at the south gate.
The sensor itself is a strip of plastic filled with flexible sensors connected to a small microcontroller module with three indicator LEDs and a micro-USB port.
Following the quake, investigators in Yunlin county discovered that three crumbled structures had been erected by a construction company that had used empty plastic bottles and tin cans as filler to save on concrete and bricks. (The owner was arrested.) In Dali, a massive apartment block suffered major damage: one of the 11-story buildings was uprooted from the ground and fell backward.
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New this year is a three-storey circular light installation entitled Rising Moon, made from 7, 000 plastic bottles and other recyclable materials floating on a pool of water in Victoria Park.
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In Sweden he visited a plant where refuse is rotated in an unused rotary kiln for three days, allowing bacteria that thrive in that temperature to quickly degrade it into fertilizer and bits of plastic.
The two or three packagers broke down the pot into 1.5- and 2-gram parcels, which were placed in plastic canisters and labeled according to type.
That's actually pretty common, according to a survey from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which found that out of every 10 women who qualify for reconstructive breast surgery, only three are fully informed of their options.
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