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April 15, 2005

Extreme textiles at Cooper-Hewitt

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Posted by Dominic Basulto

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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