Sentences with phrase «for fragile objects»

Presumably, hanging Bubble Wrap on the wall alludes to the fact that its designers originally intended to produce three - dimensional wallpaper before realizing that their product was far more functional as packing material for fragile objects; placing it alongside Morellet might hint at the ways in which the standard grid served as a point of departure and structural principle for both artistic composition and industrial manufacture.

Not exact matches

The work helps address a major limitation of squishy, flexible robots — which are better suited than their traditional, rigid counterparts for navigating rough terrain and handling fragile objects, but are vulnerable to punctures and tears.

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam.

For now, though, the ability to manipulate, as well as float, objects by sound could be used to transport hazardous or fragile materials or to simulate the low gravity of space.

For all their strength and pre-programmed dexterity, robots still have difficulty with fragile objects.

For the porcelain part, please avoid impact with hard surfaces and sharp objects as they are fragile material.

Glazed black porcelain for Wagner, for example, might evoke the composer's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, amassing all of his lengthy compositions into a fragile but dense object.

Porcelain thus occupies a unique place in our collective imaginary: it is durable enough to be the material of choice for domestic objects and yet it is fragile and delicate enough to have connotations with the fragility of bone or skin.

An artist continually writing his signature in a spiral for the life of an ink cartridge (Tom Friedman); a square section of drywall polished to a fragile, mirror - like finish (Karin Sander); a film that records an image of the sun from sunrise to sunset (Paul Pfeiffer); a rectangular Plexiglass volume with water inside it (Hans Haacke), are but a few examples of how modest means evolve into objects which are complex ruminations on presence and absence, nature and culture, order and chaos.

But until we learn to teleport fragile objects, we're going to have to protect them for the journey.

Intended to be scaled for larger companies and other institutions, Royal College of Art graduate Mireia Gordi i Vila is proposing «Fragile,» a reusable, modular, collapsible packaging design that looks something like a flexible clamshell membrane that will fit any odd - sized, valuable object.