He did a puppet version of "Treasure Island," using an automobile dashboard for the lights.

Human interaction with all kinds of objects requires the construction of interfaces - from toilet seats to automobile dashboards - contouring the object to suit our bodies and minds.

Slowly, the cup holder elbowed its way from its humble beginnings to prime real estate in the meticulously plotted hierarchy of the automobile dashboard.

Demand is especially strong in these newly opening economies for molding equipment, which is used to make automobile dashboards, vinyl car door panels, toilet seats and plastic cupboard doors.

There are also marvels of advanced technology that Mario Bellini has endowed with a deadpan playfulness not usually encountered in adding machines, television sets or automobile dashboards.

The term dashboard originates from the automobile dashboard where drivers monitor the major functions at a glance via the instrument cluster.

DLC coats the cutting edges of tools for the high-speed, dry shaping of difficult exposed surfaces of wood and aluminium, for example on automobile dashboards.

Among other things, it claims "basic" patents in the following: * Liquid crystal displays, for virtually any digital readout found in a watch, electronic calculator, consumer appliance or automobile dashboard.

Mr. Sweeney is particularly keen on fragrance-impregnated automobile dashboards, which he firmly believes will be an option one day, just like whitewall tires.