Water and dust resistance by a rubber USB cover, protects internal circuit, effectively enhance its lifespan
Cards, used to stiffen packets, became a lure for consumers keen to ogle images of actresses (tobacco manufacturer Washington Duke expressed concern at the use of lascivious photographs to sell his product in 1894), or to indulge in the proto-Pokmon hobby of collecting pics of baseball players, boats and, er, pigeons
In some ways, it echoes other trends in novel materials weve seen in years past: dissolvable plastics, biodegradable additives, compostable polymers, to name a few
My term at Columbia was a makeshift at best and although I began to develop the intellectual consequences of my own ideas, I did not get much help from my professors