Today in Plastics
Appliances & Gadgets
Every day we rely on an array of countless appliances and gadgets to get things done and stay connected. From personal computers, MP3 players, cameras and cell phones to refrigerators and high-tech vacuum cleaners, plastics play a key role in making these everyday products durable, lighter and more efficient.
Interactive Touch Screens
Read MoreTalk on Recycled Plastic
Submitted on Aug 5, 2010
Verizon Wireless is now selling the Samsung Intensity II online. A phone made partly from recycled plastic.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets • Future Technologies
Plastics Make Solar Bulbs Possible
Submitted on Jul 20, 2010
Solar-powered light bulb is one Denver inventor’s brilliant idea to bring light to rural areas.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Summer Entertaining Sweepstakes!
Submitted on Jun 16, 2010
The Summer Entertaining Sweepstakes is now officially closed. Thank you to everyone who participated by submitting their favorite plastic innovations for summer entertaining! Judging by your comments, durability, portability and convenience are top priority when it comes to entertaining during the warm summer months. The winner of the summer enterta [...]
Category: Appliances & Gadgets • Aspen Food & Wine • Events • Smart Packaging
New Thermoplastic Springs have Sprung
Submitted on Apr 20, 2010
Lee Spring, a leading global manufacturer of mechanical springs since 1918, introduces LeeP™ plastic composite springs, which are molded from SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Ultem* resin
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Plastic Preferred!
Submitted on Apr 20, 2010
The plastic version of a new cake cutting tool is preferred by most bakers.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Plastics Take Touch Screens to the Next Level
Submitted on Apr 13, 2010
New developments use plastic to improve touch screen technology.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets • Future Technologies
Lightweighting Electronics?
Submitted on Apr 6, 2010
Using a thin layer of heat-resistant silicon dioxide on plastic, researchers have found a way to cut the weight of certain electronics in half.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Recycled Plastic Clothespin: Your New Favorite Gadget
Submitted on Mar 22, 2010
With so many options, how will you use these new clothespin-shaped plastic mini-lamps?
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Plastic Laptops Looking Good
Submitted on Mar 5, 2010
Dell’s newest laptops show advances in design a new way to look at plastic.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Plastic Composite Springs Stronger Than Steel
Submitted on Jan 20, 2010
Ultem resin, the ‘spring steel’ of plastics, aides in advances springs.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
