Skylanders Giants creator unboxes the new Lightcore Jet-Vac character, shares secrets about its origins and the challenge of working in plastic and paint rather than pixels.
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Meanwhile, another company, Plastic Logic, has been working to introduce its notepad-sized 8.5-inch reader targeted at business users.
He said the government had no plans to introduce a plastic bag tax but was working with supermarkets to make sure more bags were reused or recycled.
Early last year rumors swirled that Samsung was working on handsets with a plastic-based OLED screen folded over the sides.
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The doctors and nurses at his hospital, working heroically, moved 215 patients, including infants on ventilators whose lungs were kept working with hand-operated plastic bags, to other hospitals like Mount Sinai Medical Center four miles north.
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Postgraduate student Thomas Sinn is working with disks of thin metallic plastic film.
But Mr. Valdespino says Secure Wrap's film is made of 30% recycled plastic, and he says the company is working on adding a "biodegradable" feature.
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It's been a battle of epic proportions over a microscopic piece of plastic, but the warring sides appear to be working together to find a compromise.
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Another company working with E-Ink is UK firm Plastic Logic.
Unfortunately, the plastic mock-up has always been a non-working, gutless model with little more than a glossy screen and backlight to demonstrate the form factor Intel's gunning for with its future Moorestown Mobile Internet Devices.
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Through the doors, women working as outsourced workers for existing nearby factories can be seen putting handles on plastic bags and metal springs together.
The jury was told that the guns were taken out of the plastic bags they were wrapped in and handed around the two men, and four others they were working with.
She would divide her paintings into squares, halving and quartering, before working and she used a similar technique with her sculptures which she made out of stone, plastic and fiber glass and on which she concentrated from the 1960s.
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State media on Friday ran pictures of animal health officials in protective overalls and masks working through the night at the market, taking notes as they stood over piles of poultry carcasses in plastic bags.
"One of the ways these discs could be reused is as a radiation shield because there's a lot of plastic packaging in the trash, " Mary Hummerick, a Qinetiq North America microbiologist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on the project, said in a statement.
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The phone seems to be called "The Other Half" -- or at least that's the working title for now -- and judging from Jolla's Facebook page it consists of a colorful plastic case, available in various shades including orange or green, which hooks onto the main chassis containing a 4.5-inch display (of unknown resolution), dual-core processor, microSD expansion with 16GB onboard, a "4G" modem, user replaceable battery and an 8MP rear camera.
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