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Olympus MJU 1030 The Olympus MJU 1030 ($500) is crushproof up to 220 lbs. (100 kg), so even if a baby elephant stands on it, your safari snaps may still be safe. It can also endure more everyday dangers, including submergence in 32.8 ft. (10 m) of water. www.olympus-global.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Gadgets | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...which are strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making lining unnecessary. Bonding also makes laces and other ravelly materials as easy to sew as calico. Besides an ever-expanding market of synthetics, textilers now offer fake furs, machine-washable woolens, washable crushproof velvet and even washable suede. Some materials can set the connoisseur back more than $100 a yard, but she is apt to find them a bargain. Says Manhattan Socialite Belkis Ertegun: "I have a hunger for clothes. I want something new every minute, and yet I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Time to Sew | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

MARLBORO CIGARETTE (made by Philip Morris) is introducing a king-size filter tip in a flip-top, crushproof cardboard box which the company says took seven years and 50 patents to develop, and which can be re-used as a handy container for rolled-up nylons, nuts, bolts and fishhooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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