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Paper Planes

Takuo Toda, from Japan, set a Guinness World Record for the longest flight time by a paper airplane.  He folded a single sheet of paper made from sugarcane, weighing only 2 grams, and threw it to a height of over 50 feet at a gymnasium in Fukuyama and saw it slowly circle to the ground 27.9 seconds later. Do you know how long a 27.9-second flight is for a paper plane? It’s a long time. If you…

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Nike's New Aerogami Jacket Senses When You're Sweating, and Opens Vents Automatically

Nike has always been pioneering technology to make their products more technologically suited to their use case. That’s certainly the case here with their new running jacket, called the Aerogami. The jacket transforms in real time as runners warm up, opening strategically placed vents to cool them. It’s all done without any mechanical or electronic system, either, relying on moisture from body…

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