The textured plastic back and roundedness of the edges make it comfortable to hold, even though the top half can start to slide open a little too readily.

One of the most absorbing works here is the scale model of Frank Lloyd Wright's house "Fallingwater," cantilevered daringly over a burbling stream of textured plastic.

The phone's textured plastic back, on the other hand, felt cheap, though its crosshatched pattern made gripping the Conquer easy.

The dashboard is resolutely General Motors, a plain of textured plastic that could have been smooth and body-colored (like the console) to continue the nostalgia theme.

The New Beetle's imaginative use of textured plastic and tropical dashboard lighting, Audi's use of brushed aluminum interior fittings (which accent the all-aluminum body of the Audi A8) and the Mercedes SLK230's electric-orange leather interior represent the wave of the near future.

The Chevy Avalanche wears vast expanses of dull-gray textured plastic, and the Isuzu VehiCross (a transportation device stranger than any Vulcan) seems wrought of little else.

The textured plastic of the SmartPad2 keyboard, he added, is easier to tap than the slippery surface of a hand-held computer's screen.

There is a lot of textured plastic inside, including, on the LHS, a truly cheap-looking console shift indicator (which, annoyingly, is not even illuminated).

The colorful buildings set up above the harbor behind sturdy sea walls utilized manmade materials and modernistic surfaces in some sort of tough, textured plastic and a good deal of plasglas so no vista would be hidden from the occupiers.