Safety

New metal foam material absorbs seven to eight times the energy absorbed by similar foams

Uncompressed and Compressed Metal Foam

Aerospace engineering professor Afsaneh Rabiei set out to make a material as light as aluminum and stronger than stainless steel. Her goal was to create something that could be used in products that would save lives, save energy and eventually save money, all at the same time.Read More

These railings in a residential building located in Finland also serve as bench seating, using an innovative bend process during the railing's construction.Read More

You've seen the hotdog video, now see the real deal: Inventor uses his own finger to test his table saw

The people at SawStop are passionate about preventing table saw accidents, and SawStop inventor Steve Gass has put his own finger on the line to illustrate the safety of his saw.

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Armored baby carriage and cradle art sculptures provide the ultimate safety for your child - and devastation for those that get in their way

Shi Jinsong's armored baby carriage and cradle are stainless steel art sculptures that are part of the "China - Contemporary Revival," an exhibition at the Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy.

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NASA tests honeycomb airbag to protect passengers in helicopter crashes

NASA researchers recently dropped a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet to see whether an expandable honeycomb cushion called a deployable energy absorber can lessen the destructive force of a crash.Read More

HP's new, bigger MEMS sensor promises thousand-fold sensitivity improvement

Last week, two rods snapped on California's Bay Bridge, raining debris on three vehicles and forcing officials to close the bridge, a major commuter artery, for a week. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories thinks one way to monitor the gradual deterioration of the world's bridges is to pepper them with many thousands of small networked acceleration sensors that could, in theory, provide warnings before catastrophic failure.Read More

Proven effective by independent testing laboratories, these devices use Nano-UV light to destroy all kinds of microorganisms without toxins or side effects.Read More

The pink cabs are part of a government-backed fleet in Mexico's colonial city of Puebla aimed at helping female passengers tired of leering male drivers.Read More

This isn't Photoshopped. This is the actual Congress Hall in Biel, Switzerland - augmented by an art project by urban artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann.

Dark Roasted Blend

Sometimes the best designs come from simple ideas.

The people at Dosun recognized the value of old school pedal reflectors, but thought the design could be improved by adding a self-contained light source. The Dosun J-1 safety pedal lights have a built-in micro generator that powers the lights without batteries.Read More