DURABLE POINT-AND-SHOOTS The camera industry has responded to smartphones by trying to make their point-and-shoot cameras look and feel like the devices threatening to supplant them.
You can also use any item with a durable, pointed metal tip if you don't want to spend money on the tool.
Like a hermit crab seeking a new shell, immortality may not really be about copying ourselves but about creating a process in which we slowly leave behind our current, biological homes and move somewhere more durable, a point made by Steven Novella, a clinical neurologist and an assistant professor at Yale.
Apple said the iBook is also unusually durable, a point it underscored by having Marketing Vice President Phil Schiller jump off a 25-foot-high platform while holding an iBook.
Though tilted slightly, it somehow survived, emerging from the fire and smoke of Sept. 11 -- inexplicably durable, still pointing to the heavens and now a fitting, realistic and moving monument to those who died there.
This bargain that the South made with the nation as a whole — Thirteenth Amendment yes, Fourteenth and Fifteenth no — was durable to the point of seeming unchangeable.
It is attractive in colour and brightness, durable to the point of virtual indestructibility, highly malleable, and usually found in nature in a comparatively pure form.
And yet he is the least popular of the Fifth Republic's presidents, the one whose "fall from grace" with the French has been the most spectacular, rapid, and durable, to the point where political experts, and his friends and foes alike, wonder whether he can rebound.
The ink is secure, but not very durable at this point.
Try to make the points durable and sharp.
"The story of the industry seems to have shifted a little bit from potential buyers being unable to close the deal due to the credit tightening, towards a widespread reluctance to purchase durable goods at this point, amid continued very weak consumer confidence," Brian A. Johnson, an analyst with Barclays Capital, wrote in a recent report.
