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Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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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.