the100rabh@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · vor 10 MonatenBike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buywww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1260arrow-down155
arrow-up1205arrow-down1external-linkBike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buywww.theverge.comthe100rabh@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · vor 10 Monatenmessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareJordan Lund@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·vor 10 MonatenLost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”. There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s. https://youtu.be/XPrg8EZlD1E
minus-squareelectromage@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·vor 10 MonatenMy handheld radio antennas are nitinol, I can bend them to fin in a bag or tie them in a loose knot and they don’t deform.
minus-squareAbnorc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·vor 10 MonatenThat they’re aware of?! This just reads like they didn’t bother to do any research.
Lost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”.
There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s.
https://youtu.be/XPrg8EZlD1E
My handheld radio antennas are nitinol, I can bend them to fin in a bag or tie them in a loose knot and they don’t deform.
That they’re aware of?! This just reads like they didn’t bother to do any research.