Fjällräven
From Mild to Wild
23 Jul 2025
For winters that run from mild to wild, Fjällräven jackets are designed so you never feel cold again. The Swedish outdoor company’s jackets have been trusted for over 50 years from everyday urban chil
Autumn trekking calls for Keb
16 Jul 2025
Gear up for shoulder season. Autumn trekking calls for Keb, now including GORE-TEX ePE membranes. When it comes to trekking conditions, the autumn shoulder season is an unlikely hero. Sure, summer i
Sustainability and CSR 2024
05 Jun 2025
The 2024 sustainability and CSR summary is now available. In it are highlights and challenges from the year presented in approachable formats, as well as overviews of Fjällräven’s seven sustainability
Introducing Fjällräven cycling equipment
24 Feb 2025
Fjällräven, the Swedish outdoor clothing and equipment company, combines decades of experience creating long-lasting and functional trekking gear with a long-held love for cycling and adventure to lau
Fjällräven Classic 2025
31 Jan 2025
Fjällräven Classic, Fjällräven’s largest global event, returns in 2025 with seven treks across four continents from July to December. Taking place in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the UK, the USA, Korea,
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The history of safety glass
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You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
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First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
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From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
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Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
