Adidas announced plans to send its proprietary material for experiments on the International Space Station. The company will send pellets of its proprietary expanded thermoplastic polyurethane — known as Boost — to the ISS as part of a launch reportedly set for sometime next year. Once safely in orbit, astronauts will fill a mold of…
Month: November 2019
Is Fitbit selling us out?
A column on USA Today looks at the recent announcement that Google is buying Fitbit. Fitbit has one of the most enviable caches of health data in existence. But the wearables pioneer needs money to stay competitive in the red-hot industry it helped spawn. It’s pairing up with Google, one of the internet giants that…
Voyager 2 and interstellar space
Voyager 2 is once again capturing our imaginations. One year ago, on Nov. 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 became only the second spacecraft in history to reach interstellar space, the region between the stars…The findings help paint a picture of the “cosmic shoreline” where the environment created by our sun ends and the vast ocean…
Phantom Braking Still a Problem
Automatic Braking will soon be standard, But ‘Phantom Braking’ is still a problem. NHTSA’s investigation will cover the 2017 and 2018 Rogue after some 850 complaints of false activation of the SUV’s automatic braking – the results of which have reportedly been 14 crashes and five injuries. Jason Levine of the Center for Auto Safety…