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Maker Faire: From icy love to electrical Play-Doh

29 September 2010

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FORGET jackets that hug your figure: the latest in outerwear cool is a jacket that lets you hug a glacier.

The Glacier Embracing Suit is the brainchild of Kate Hartman, a researcher and inventor at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada. It was just one of the inventions presented at the World Maker Faire in New York last weekend.

The glacier suit is made of heat-reflecting fabric and is worn over your clothes. Hartman says she came up with the idea while researching for what…

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