NEC's moldable bioplastics

We don't even want to say what those examples sorta looks like,
but NEC has developed a flame resistant bio-plastic that doesn't require any of the toxic chemicals that usually provide said flame-resistance. The plastic can "remember" its shape, automatically returning to it after being deformed as long as its heated up to 60 degrees (we're guessing Celsius). Heat it up a little more (to 160 degrees) and the plastic will lose its memory (like how getting struck on the head supposedly causes amnesia) and remember that of whatever new shape it cools into. They're planning on using this material in all sorts of crazily-shaped computers, and we certainly wouldn't mind sculpting a new case for our PC whenever we got bored.

[Via eyebeam]

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