How Gore-Tex fabrics are tested

February 27, 2009 @ 7:43 pm

Discovery News sent two correspondents to the Gore laboratories to see how Gore-Tex fabrics are tested with some very advanced weather-simulation machines. The weather chambers at Gore can practically simulate any real-world weather condition from extreme heat to extreme cold.

The purpose of the visit was to better understand how Gore keeps people comfortable in extreme weather, that way the two Discovery News correspondents will be prepared to handle Alaska’s climate when they head there next week to film.

Their labs remind me a lot of the Good Housekeeping testing center at the Hearst Tower in New York City.

The next President and his men

December 10, 2008 @ 12:36 pm


Photo: Charles Dharapak/Associated Press

I like this picture because it is more or less symmetrical (the flags, the folded hands of Gore and Biden, the lights above the men at the table) and it is super-American looking. I mean, here are three of America’s most powerful men each dwarfed by a tall American flag on a pole. Look at those suits, pressed and cleaned like no other. This picture is full of awesome.

You can see a bigger image at the WSJ.