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Protective footwear for sports makes a splash

Free Your Feet is the newest iteration of the Kitesock, which was inspired by the needs of kite surfers who required protection against hidden sharp objects while still being able to stay in sync with their boards. Photo: Swiss Barefoot Company. People who enjoy board sports like body boarding and surfing, or other [...]

By |2016-08-01T00:00:24-05:00August 1, 2016|

Glass curtainwall gives great transparency

Maintenance-free mesh provides transparency and safety for the glass curtainwall stair tower at the UCLA School of Medicine. Photo: Banker Wire. The UCLA School of Medicine’s South Tower building is undergoing a major renovation to convert nine of the former hospital’s 12 floors into a research lab. Known as the South Tower Seismic [...]

By |2016-08-01T00:00:14-05:00August 1, 2016|

Motorcycle racers confront danger in D-air®

D-air® Armor, worn under a rider’s racing suit, can deploy in 30 milliseconds and reaches full protection level within 80 milliseconds. Photo: Dainese Group. Motorcycle racing isn’t for the faint of heart, and the 2016 Supersport World Championship is a top-tier competition for international riders on production-based motorcycles of 600 to 750 cm³ [...]

By |2016-08-01T00:00:04-05:00August 1, 2016|

Photographs tell a Texas-size tale

The history of Haltom City is told visually on a stunning mural that hangs in the community library. Photo: The Bubble™. Haltom City, Texas, is a community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a long history. It was the county seat of the early Birdville Settlement, which was established four years before Texas [...]

By |2016-08-01T00:00:02-05:00August 1, 2016|

Space under pressure

Expandable habitats like BEAM greatly decrease the amount of transport volume for future space missions. They weigh less and take up less room on a rocket while allowing additional space for living and working. Photo: Bigelow Aerospace. The first inflatable structure designed for human use in orbit was attached to the Tranquility module [...]

By |2016-08-01T00:00:00-05:00August 1, 2016|

Satellites and silk conjure earthly delights

Slow Factory takes its inspiration from outer space to do social good on earth by donating proceeds from its collections to humanitarian causes. Photo: Slow Factory. It’s called the “overview effect”—a term coined by space philosopher and writer Frank White in a book of the same name. It’s the mental shift that happens [...]

By |2016-08-01T00:00:00-05:00August 1, 2016|

‘Batman v Superman’ premier tent is blockbuster

High-profile, large-scale events are Everything Entertainment’s forte. In 2015, the company put together a quarter mile of tenting for the September 24 visit of Pope Francis and the United Nations General Assembly meeting, both in the same week. Photo: Everything Entertainment. Everything Entertainment, an event-production company based in Staten Island, N.Y., routinely provides [...]

By |2016-06-29T09:00:48-05:00June 29, 2016|

Fast forward for footwear

The Alexander Taylor Studio first partnered with adidas in 2008 on a project to create something totally new in the athletic shoe industry—and to be ready to unveil it by the 2012 Olympic Games. PrimeKnit, a technology to produce knitted footwear, was a rousing success; adidas looks for a similar response to Tailored Fibre [...]

By |2016-06-29T09:00:44-05:00June 29, 2016|

MIRA supercomputer puts on a bold front

In addition to being one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet, MIRA is energy efficient, saving energy through innovative chip design and a unique water-cooling system—an important reason why a wrap had to grab attention without hampering functionality. Photo: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. In the world of high-speed calculations, [...]

By |2016-06-29T09:00:40-05:00June 29, 2016|

Flying tent works up top or down low

The flying tent comes in three colors(orange, green and blue), can be ordered online and will ship to anywhere in the world—which is where you’ll find the Startraveller team, according to the start-up’s website. “We are emotion seekers. Due to our passion for nature we create smart outdoor gear to feel independent and free [...]

By |2016-06-29T09:00:16-05:00June 29, 2016|
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