The metallic look and positioning of the power button is inspired by luxury watch crown design.

The phone has a metallic look and spots a small colour screen on the outside of the clamshell.

And the quality of the dash materials, especially plastic panels with an unconvincing metallic look, are unlikely to age well.

The metallic look may not be desirable to some people, although transparent varieties are available.

He added: "The current direction of some luxury car interiors, toward cold and gray metallic looks, may be off the beam.

The chromium technology used for these cards give them a glossy metallic look on the front.

Although the metallic look may have started at the outer rim of style, it is now at its hub.

The modern, metallic look of the building comes from the use of aluminum panels imported from Japan.

However, the form factor of the phone is a "slider" form with a futuristic metallic look.

When cool, the glass spheres are usually taken to be covered in a silver nitrate or similar solution, to give them a metallic look.