plastic

They're made out of what looks like the cheapest plastic ever.

Ugly nick-nacks, beat up plastic cups, dated books no one wants to read.

Idlys being cooked on plastic sheets inside hot streamers.

The chess board made out of paper with plastic pieces was the only "toy" we never broke.

The build quality makes a flagship Samsung feel like cheap plastic crap.

Even veggies are largely wrapped in plastic anymore.

I enjoy many beverages that come in plastic bottles, but that plastic, even if recycled, comes at substantial cost.

As the beam travels, it is bounced into a lens with a mirror, or on the inside of a plastic conduit or holographic waveguide.

Since holographic films are flat, you can collapse big, difficult parts of an optical system into nothing more than a flat sheet of plastic.

Since it was already closed, there was no trigger to go back to sleep so it would run itself dead in the bag and eventually the plastic near a hot component melted.

*We know that various layers in the visual and auditory systems basically just compute ICA, and we know that the brain is incredibly plastic.

I suppose Katrina was similar with the temporary housing situation, but in this case we are talking a flimsy bamboo / wooden structure with plastic tarps on the sides.

The guy we really need to find and punish is the one who invented "rigid plastic clamshells".The kind that "conveniently" transforms from product packaging into a razor-sharp weapon while you are trying to open it.

It was hardly a project in itself to arrange for a small plastic sign to be made and glued.- Yes, Catering has people whose salaried, 40 hour a week job is to handle the logistics of food ordering, and predict supply and demand.

I can't say I've ever actually heard of it though - the main problem with this idea is that cards cannot be authenticated without network access, and just spewing out money to every piece of plastic calling itself a card when your network connection has been dropped isn't really a recipe for success.