This, the first of our regional blogs, is authored by the technology and financial journalist Dominic Basulto. Dominic is a New York native, has been a senior editor at Corante since day one and has written for a number of online and offline media companies. Send tips or story ideas to: basulto@gmail.com.
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Here we'll report daily on the latest tech and business developments in New York City. Impossible we concede: comprehensive coverage of the city's every story. What we hope you'll find: tips, tidbits and perspectives you won't find elsewhere. As well as unique insights, original interviews and more that should be of interest to New York's vibrant community of technologists and those who track, invest in and report on them.
Grace Glueck of the New York Times reviews the exhibition of high-performance materials at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Some cool stuff, like the Vanguard Vector racing dinghy, protective gloves and suits for astronauts and firefighters, the WilliamsF1 BMW FW26 racing car and the Ursack bear-resistant food bag ("claw- and tooth-proofed by virtue of its impenetrable fabric of woven polyethylene filament.")
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