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* When CDs were first sold they came in boxes 3-4 times bigger than the disk. This was meant to help prevent shoplifting.
** This one has been zigzagging, with "normal" CD cases (5mm thick with often a booklet), shrinking to thin CD cases (half the thickness, never a booklet), and growing back to DVD cases (width, height, and half the thickness of a VHS).
* Integrated circuit "chips" are often manufactured in multiple forms where two or three different versions of the part have the same circuitry inside, but are widely different in physical size. This usually includes one or two tiny form factors (some version of surface-mount or ball-grid array) intended for products assembled by automated machines, and a larger version of the same part (sometimes with the connections all spaced 1/10th or 1/20th of an inch apart) which is large enough to be soldered to a circuit board by hand. This "package" is a permanent part of the component.
** These parts are then subject to further packaging into reels, tubes, trays, boxes for
** That plastic anti-static tube full of small computer chips will then be placed in a small antistatic bag or two, then placed into padding or bubble wrap for shipping, then placed into a cardboard box...
* Some parents will often package something small in a much larger box during a gift-giving holiday to tease them.
** This makes sense if the form factor would otherwise make the contents obvious... such as a printed book, a vinyl LP or an audio/video cassette. A gift wrapping which follows exactly the outline of a distinctive object (be it a violin or an iron anvil) might be amusing for fictional dramatic purposes, but would be a dead giveaway of the contents in real life.
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* A commercial once had a woman unwrap a package the shape of a tennis racket to reveal an armchair inside.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'': anything from the Capsule Corporation (vehicles, appliances, houses, ect.) collapses down for storage in a capsule no bigger than a person's finger.
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