In 1983, Foster-Grant, the sunglasses manufacturer, commercialized the scratch-resistant coating, and today, the majority of eyeglasses sold in the United States are outfitted with plastic lenses that last 10 t
For example, memory foam, developed by NASA in 1966 to absorb shock in airplane seats, ultimately found uses in Tempur-Pedic mattresses, football helmets, shoes, hospital beds, prosthetics, cars, amusement parks and modern art. The space agency also has transformed products that it didn't ...
Of course we haven’t actually made it to the track yet but soon we were released to go and get our cars and proceed to grid. Finally, I was actually going to what I had always wanted to do. You see, ever since I was a kid, as long as I could remember I’ve wanted to drive...
For example, memory foam, developed by NASA in 1966 to absorb shock in airplane seats, ultimately found uses in Tempur-Pedic mattresses, football helmets, shoes, hospital beds, prosthetics, cars, amusement parks and modern art. The space agency also has transformed products that it didn't ...
The development of this mission is a combination of the “old” and the “new,” said Gentry Lee, chief engineer for Solar System Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Mission engineers said that the rover is going to get a new refined design. ...
When Challenger disintegrated, I was all of 15 years old, and it shook me to see the people I had thought capable of engineering miracles stumble so badly. But it was comforting to think that NASA–that we–had learned and would never again think that “this worked every other time” out...
The neighborhood was built on a canal in an old manufacturing area, and has 30 buildings, including a shared meeting space.Schoonschip is designed to be sustainable (可持续的). Each building has its own heat pump and solar panels,and residents (居民) share things like bicycles, cars and ...
Launch your child's imagination with Walmart's Space Shuttle Toy with Astronaut. Perfect for space-loving boys and girls!
She and her husband Michael, who live in Massachusetts, also enjoy hanging out with their dogs, working out, and working on houses, cars and airplanes, according to NASA. What is the longest anyone has spent in space? Russian cosmonautValeri Polyakovset that ...
Reckon buying a ropey old Mazda MX-5 is the best way to get the hang of low-speed drifting? You're wrong, it would appear. That's because NASA has just shown us this video of its Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV), and in the process dropped all of our jaws to the floor and made us...