Du nouveau sur les fringues au Silver "Kipupu"

Du nouveau sur les fringues au Silver "Kipupu"

à raisons d'1 oz pour 100 paires de chaussettes et de queklques paires par individu...Si les chinois et les indiens puent des pieds, ça va faire lourd ...
Non, mais sans déconner, la sappe en Silver, comme c'est expliqué, pour les soldats, les travailleurs (les vrais) ça représente un marché énorme ...

Comme disait souvent Sue Maypupu...la jeune suedo-hawaienne plus connue pour ses recherches sur les déodorants...

Silver Lining: Precious Metal Keeps Clothes From Smelling

By Michael Rubinkam
Associated Press
via Centre Daily Times, State College, Pennsylvania
Thursday, November 23, 2006

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/technology/16084012....

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania -- Bill McNally believes he has found a silver bullet for keeping the stink out of your socks. Not to mention your underwear, workout clothes, travel outfits, and hiking and hunting gear.

McNally's company, Scranton-based Noble Biomaterials, embeds the precious metal in clothing worn by U.S. soldiers, elite athletes and weekend warriors alike -- thus capitalizing on silver's increasing popularity as a way to keep clothes smelling fresh, even after multiple wears without a wash.

Noble is among a handful of companies that produce silver-coated textiles for use in the burgeoning market for high-tech performance apparel. The 10-year-old, privately held company's sales have grown an average of 50 percent per year, and doubled in the last 18 months, signaling rapid acceptance in the marketplace.

Silver kills odor-causing bacteria and neutralizes ammonia; it also conducts body heat, keeping the wearer warm in cold weather and cool in hot weather.

"I think it's a great concept for workout clothes and athletic gear, things you don't necessarily wash every single time," said Marlene Bourne, president of Bourne Research in Scottsdale, Ariz. Bourne studies emerging technologies - and has worn a pullover threaded with Noble's silver-coated fiber, called X-Static.

Noble has licensed X-Static to more than 300 companies, including Adidas, Umbro, Puma, Polartec and other apparel makers. England's national soccer team wore X-Static jerseys at the World Cup, and track-and-field squads from 60 countries clad themselves in it during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Lululemon Athletica Inc., a Canadian sportswear company, incorporates X-Static in workout and running garments, "a lot of the sports you would sweat in," said spokeswoman Sara Gardiner. "The feedback we've received has been fantastic."

While most of Noble's growth has been concentrated in Europe and Asia, X-Static is gaining ground domestically. "The U.S. is always slower to pick up on technology advancements in the apparel market, but it's really starting to catch up," said Joel Furey, who heads Noble's consumer division.

U.S. soldiers and Marines already wear X-Static socks and T-shirts, which provide "olfactory camouflage" as well as a first line of defense against shrapnel wounds, because any of the silver fabric that becomes embedded in the wound "actually starts treating the wound," according to McNally, the company founder.

"You spend enough time in the jungle like I did, with clothes rotting off you and all sorts of skin infections, and I knew there had to be a better way," said McNally, 45, a Marine veteran.

Though a pair of X-Static socks contains only about one-hundredth of an ounce of silver, Noble cajoles wearers to take the "Double Dog Dare": Clad one foot in an X-Static sock and the other in a regular sock for a week straight without washing - and "smell the difference."

Silver's germ-killing properties have been known for thousands of years. In ancient times, silver was used to purify water. More recently, silver nitrate was dropped in newborns' eyes to ward off bacterial infections from the mother.

As manufacturers look to feed America's obsession with germ-fighting, they are adding the metal to a wide array of consumer products.

Samsung has launched a line of washing machines and refrigerators that use silver to kill germs. The Sharper Image offers food-storage containers lined with silver nanoparticles. Curad sells silver bandages. And Motorola's i870 phone includes an antibacterial silver coating.

"It is a growing field, there's no question about it," said Michael DiRienzo, executive director of The Silver Institute, a Washington-based trade group. "You're talking microscopic amounts of silver being used in this application, but over time, it could chew up a lot of silver and that's what interests us."

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j'aurais préféré 1 oz par paire et 100 paires par individu

Do the math Bob...des pieds, yen a 12 milliards, pour ne parler que des chaussettes... et des oz yen a plus

justement c'est pour mieux finir notre courbe en exponentielle ....to the sun

je recop/coll un court extrait contenu dans l'article de Financial sense relatif aux citations de Nov 2006 sur le collapse du Dollar...(cf le post de mary)

Richard Daughty, the Mogambo Guru
If we speak of gold, how can we not speak of silver? And so, if you want another reason to buy silver, since I seem to always be screaming that you should buy silver and it hasn't done any good, then read the essay "Silver in clothing keeps odors away" by Michael Rubinkam at the Associated Press, and maybe you will get with the program.

For one thing, if you have ever listened to one of your kids say "Ewww! Don't put your stinky feet near me/in the same room as me/ in the same state as me/ I hate you", then you, too, are probably self-conscious about the odor of your feet. So rejoice in that silver-impregnated socks prevent odors! If nothing else, this should send the sales of these socks soaring, sending the price of silver soaring, making me (as a holder of silver) rich, rich, rich, allowing me to run for office, get elected and use the power of government to crush my enemies! So how close are we to that sweet dream of self-righteous vengeance, as measured by the "silver per sock ratio"?

Well, the amount of silver in one pair of these socks, says the article, is 1/100 of an ounce. So a stinking million pairs of socks is 10,000 ounces of additional consumption of silver per year. A hundred million pairs of socks per year, which I think is globally conservative, is another million ounces of silver consumed per year! And this does not include shirts, shoes, or underwear with embedded-silver material! And you can count on the military to increase consumption of silver-impregnated materials, as silver in soldier's clothing not only eliminates the smells, fungi, bacteria, viruses and icky crap that plague soldiers, but it is actually "a first line of defense against shrapnel wounds, because any of the silver fabric that becomes embedded in the wound 'actually starts treating the wound,' according to the company founder."

The clothing itself not only helps heal the wound, but will also maintain a relatively sterile area around the wound by virtue of the remaining protective clothing? Man, oh man! And you can be sure that it is not just the American army that is looking at this stuff and saying, echoing the sentiments of The Mogambo, "Man, oh man!"