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plastic
CNET.co.uk has 58 stories on plastic
News.blog: iPod nano pics
News The photo on the site shows a copper-hued music player encased in a protective plastic display housing. Tuesday's Apple event can't come soon enough for the gazillions of people eager to find out what the company has in store.
Tags: event, nano, ipod nano, confirmed
8 September 2008, 9:10
Photos: Living green in La Casa Verde
News Some of the decking uses Trex, a composite of wood and recycled plastic. In San Francisco, limited land availability and notorious red tape can make it especially hard to build with sustainable materials and renewable sources of energy.
Tags: water, natural, city, house
12 May 2008, 9:38
Photos: Green packaging eliminates 'wrap rage'
News This thick plastic packaging looks about as hard to crack as the laptop lock it contains. Wrap rage' is what some consumers suffer when struggling to remove a product from a sealed plastic shell resistant to poking, prying and tearing.
Tags: package, board, consumer, hands
1 May 2008, 9:45
News.blog: AT&T to sell 3G iPhone at $200 discount?
News Presumably, AT&T's might come with the glossy black plastic chassis reported by Engadget with some sort of changes to the hardware (perhaps making it thicker) and software to close the loopholes exploited by iPhone hackers.
Tags: stores, model, demand, iphone
30 April 2008, 9:39
Photos: Wearable tech at 2nd Skin show
News Among the designs making their way down the runway were this jacket made of plastic shopping bags. Science and technology converged with art and fashion at "2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing", a runway fashion show at San...
28 April 2008, 9:24
News.blog: Nokia handset goes green
News And yesterday was the first time the thin, silver handset had been shown publicly.The device, which has an outer case made of renewable materials rather than petroleum-based plastic, doesn't yet make phone calls.
Tags: mobile phone, nokia, materials, environment
14 February 2008, 7:59
Photos: Lego celebrates 50 years
News Yesterday, Lego celebrated the 50th anniversary of the day it filed its first patent for the iconic plastic brick. Lego System set No.an 11x8-inch plastic box. The Lego system was first unveiled in 1955, before the patent for the now-iconic plastic...
Tags: elements, europe, plan, plastic
29 January 2008, 8:52
Photos: LED contacts see bionic future
News Working on this tiny scale, the researchers used a microfabrication technique known as self-assembly, in which a component's shape dictates how and where it attaches on top of a flexible plastic sheet.
Tags: research, eye, lens, creating
23 January 2008, 9:36
Photos: The insides of a Roomba
News The black semicircular plastic piece that covers the entire front of the machine is a switch that moves inward and informs the Actually, this photo was taken after post-operation reassembly, so you already know how this story's going to end.
Tags: detect, credit, edge, switch
9 January 2008, 11:48
Photos: Breaking open R2-D2
News We manage to pry R2's head off without cracking any plastic, but now we have to remove the dome from the track that lets it rotate almost degrees. Unscrewing the navigation sensor from the dome, we're a little disappointed to discover that R2's eye...
Tags: module, navigation, recognition, body
2 January 2008, 9:33
News.blog: New rules for batteries on planes
News Passengers are allowed to pack two spare batteries in their carry-on bag, as long as they're in clear plastic baggies.Fortunately, you don't have to worry about the batteries that are already installed in the devices you're bringing.
Tags: pack, installed, devices, fire
2 January 2008, 9:16
Photos: Inside the wireless rabbit
News The Nabaztag uses standard LEDs to make its light show, but it increases the volume of the light emitted with plastic cones. A plastic bunny with whirling ears and blinky lights? Remember the Wi-Fi Nabaztag rabbit from last Christmas?
Tags: gear, electronic, mark, captions
23 November 2007, 9:26
Photos: Sizing up Chicago's green high rises
News They are planted in recycled plastic boxes that allow for easy drainage. America's tallest building as green. The city announced during last week's Greenbuild conference that both the Sears Tower and the
Tags: retail, story, views, conference
14 November 2007, 10:06
Photos: Technology of 3D movies
News The glasses cost $50 (£24) and use glass lenses for now, but Dolby hopes costs will come down as manufacturing expertise increases and, potentially, as plastic lenses are used. With the images, your brain can reconstruct depth, just as it does in...
6 November 2007, 9:02
Photos: Disassembling a digital camera
News The large grey plastic piece is the backside of the battery compartment. Digital cameras are everywhere, but what makes them work? Learn how a digital camera is put together in these photos of a disassembled ViviCam, a common 3.3-megapixel model
Tags: credit, battery, cable, lens
2 November 2007, 9:37
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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