But why are most e-ink displays hidden behind a rigid glass screen and not made bendy?

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We noted that the ambitiously thin design made the device a bit bendy and creaky.

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Bendy buses have fully replaced them on only three, and newer double-deckers on the rest.

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He replaced them with the "bendy bus, " snake-like Mercedes vehicles that terrified road-users in the narrow streets.

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As you can see, the 73, which used to be a bendy bus route, is the most complained-about.

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The advertisements will run on 200 bendy buses in London and 600 vehicles in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Isle of Man passengers will get their first experience of bendy buses on Monday, when a month-long trial begins.

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The idea of a bendy bus killer seemed to hit a nerve.

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Among Johnson's pledges was to scrap the accordion-like bendy buses and replace them with a British-built Routemaster, which appeared on the streets this year.

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By most rational lights, the bendy buses, of which 31 are already in service with another 70 coming by next year, are a welcome innovation.

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His 127-acre farm, where bendy old oaks give way to neat rows of waist-high tea bushes, is the only place in America that produces tea commercially.

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But consumer products that fit the bendy, stretchy description are still very few - in part, because there have been no equally stretchy, rechargeable power sources for them.

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There are other technologies that could make your smartphone bendy.

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Bendy buses can carry more passengers than a double decker.

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But the report also revealed bendy buses had a shorter dwell time than Routemasters if 10 or more passengers boarded, but a longer dwell time than Routemasters when fewer than 10 passengers boarded.

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"It's my favorite thing, I learned on my first trip here, " Rice told reporters, taking a sip from a bendy straw, according to CNN colleague Hala Gorani, who has a sharp eye for detail.

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One features a bendy microfoil backplane.

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