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 company originally intended to use the technology in portable memory drives, but creating larger screens out of plastic turned out to be a more economical and feasible venture, Taussig said.

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The closest she could come was a memory of snorkeling, trying to draw in air from a plastic tube clogged with seaweed.

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