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...friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company - called, natch, Remarkable - has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases and mousepads, and printers into pens, creating bright new products emblazoned with declarations such...
Researchers at the Army's Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., would like to ease that load by turning soldiers into walking power plants. Iowa Thin Film Technologies began supplying the Army last year with pocket-size solar rechargers (weight 6 oz.) and tents embedded with flexible, plastic panels that can generate electricity. Soldiers field-testing the tents use them both for shelter and to operate medical or communications equipment. Another solar company, Konarka of Lowell, Mass., has also received a military grant and hopes to do away with solar panels altogether. The firm is developing light-sensitive fabrics that...
Civilians can benefit too. Iowa Thin Film Technologies already sells solar-powered radio headsets and rolls of its 13-in.-wide electricity-making plastic through a business unit, PowerFilm Solar. Konarka has partnered with another firm to design juice-generating clothing. For day hikers, Washington-based Reware sells backpacks embedded with lightweight, sun-sensitive plastic chargers that can juice cell phones and iPods. Roughing it has never been easier...
...instead of tearing the packet open directly, Sandarusi, 34, laid it down on his desk, inserted a pair of scissors beneath the flap and carefully snipped across the top. Inside, he spotted a green wire protruding from two layers of cellophane. Neatly sandwiched between them was a wad of plastic explosives sufficient to blow up Sandarusi and anyone else who might have been in the room at the time...
...true. I know that we’ve gotten these notebooks from some place in North Carolina, but there’s no reference to the producers [examining his notebook]. We do have several hundred stacked away for future use. [Picks up a stack of 72 stacked plastic-wrapped notebook.] These came up from Florida yesterday, so I’ve probably got an adequate supply for the next few months. I keep the notebooks in four different colors, which in my mind relates to the seasons of the year. I’m now going to give...