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When it comes to buying sportswear, were always advised to go down the lightweight route. Your workout outfit should be as light and fluid as possible this is whats been drilled into our heads, and this is exactly where Omorpho is breaking all the rules.Launched by former Nike executive Stefan Olander, Omorpho is the newest sportswear brand in town, and their latest Gravity Sportswear collection is quite literally turning heads. The collection promises to make the wearer, fitter, faster, and stronger.

Stefan Olander said, Weve always been told that what we wear for sports and fitness should be as lightweight as possible, but the first thing we do to get stronger and fitter is add resistance. So why not build it into what we wear? And this does seem possible. Wondering how? We have one word for youMicroLoad. Omorpho makes sports apparel heavier, rather than lighter. And it does so, by strategically distributing small amounts of weight (in the form of little beads) across a vest, tops, and bottoms, in an attempt to increase and improve your fitness, power, and speed.

The beads are called Gravity Spheres, and are created from polyurethane. In fact, the addition of these bulbous spherescan increase your vertical jump by 9 percent, power by 8 percent, and speed by three percent (proven by studies, of course). And, not to mention, besides the immense functionality of this collection, it also has a lot to offer in terms of aesthetics. All the products are sleek, futuristic, and absolute attention grabbers. And, they make you look like youve just stepped out of Black Panther. Wakanda Forever!

Sports apparel today is optimized for competition, but most people compete for less than 1 percent of the time, Stefan Olander, co-founder of Omorpho, said in a release. Weve created a beautiful and functional collection for the other 99 percent using a completely new approach to deliver better results by adding small amounts of weight that dont restrict movement. And thats the magic of MicroLoad. The naturally distributed weight is light enough to let you move with your usual speed and intensity, while also challenging the active muscles, by placing weight on the parts of your body that are moving.

The premium performance fabrics used to create the Gravity Sportswear collection provide utmost comfort and elasticity during any type of training. The intriguing gravity spheres are placed strategically across the apparel for peak functionality, and to help build strength, speed, and endurance.

Named after the Greek word meaning beautiful, Omorpho attempts to challenge the age-old misconception that lightweight apparel is the key to a better workout. And I do believe it successfully does so with its Gravity Sportswear collection. You can now achieve better fitness results, increase the effectiveness of your training, and challenge your muscles even more intensely by simply changing what you wear!

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This futuristic sportswear collection with strategically distributed weights is giving us a cool, Wakanda-vibe - Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

Starward Industries has published a behind-the-scenes Chronicles video forThe Invincible that offers just a bit of gameplay from its upcoming sci-fi novel-to-video game adaptation. Game director Marek Markuszewski and community manager Micha Napora introduce players to the retro-futuristic, Mars-like sights and sounds of Regis III, as well as the games protagonist, Dr. Yasna. Theres a little bit of additional in-engine footage here, too, with some first glimpses atThe Invincible gameplay. The final release will offer a non-linear, cinematic story, and you can watch the behind-the-scenes Chronicles video for The Invincible below for more.

Starward gave us a The Invincible teaser sans any gameplay in an in-engine video last month, but the developer provides more information on The Invincible at its interactive website, including a useful summary of what to expect from the choice-driven narrative:

Regis III in the Lyra constellation. Place of your mission. Your name is Yasna, and you are a scientist with a lot of experience under your belt. That you remember. Everything else is somehow behind a fog. You know you didnt come here alone. The entire crew was with you. They didnt suddenly dissolve into thin air. You have to no, you want to go out and find them. Find out what happened. Your intuition tells you that apart from the answers to your questions, you will discover something more

You wont be completely alone in The Invincible, however, as Starward promises a distant companion in the form of an Astrogator who can only be communicated with over the radio. Yasna will also have access to a probe and her analog equipment, using it all to explore and discover more about the sci-fi world of Regis III.

The Invincible will launch on PC and consoles sometime in 2022, and we can look forward to more gameplay and behind-the-scenes videos in the meantime.

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Ask Jamie Metzl, an acclaimed futurist , what the future holds and the answer might surprise: we already know, because were already in it.

The human species is well on the path of developing and applying god-like powers to read, write and hack the code of life, Metzl says. And the consequences of that, were seeing right now in fact, more than 90 per cent of us literally have the very latest of the biotechnology revolution inside us, in the form of the revolutionary mRNA vaccines which have been developed to fight the Covid pandemic.

mRNA vaccines are basically injecting instructions to your cells... to do something they werent naturally designed to do, which is create this foreign object that is the spike protein from the SARS-COV2 virus. Then your body identifies that foreign intruder that you have produced you are the manufacturing plant, and thats how you get your immunity.

For Metzl, talking in the latest episode of the WellBeings podcast with Dominic Bowden, the point is less about individual technologies even the magic of those vaccines, as he puts it and much more about how all of us respond to them.

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The Pfizer vaccine, which works by instructing our cells how to recognise an invasion of Covid virus.

We should all recognise that were making societal choices about how these technologies are used and should be regulated, and everybody should be part of that process.

READ MORE:* Covid-19: Auckland firm develops RNA production platform, paving way for Kiwi vaccine* The Whole Truth on Covid-19 vaccines: Battling misinformation really matters* Covid-19: Turning our bodies into vaccine factories* Covid-19: How does the Pfizer vaccine destined for NZ actually work?

Those who resent technology and feel we should go back to natural ways, he argues, weve already passed that point.

Its not `technology yes or no?. Its, `technology, how best for humans? and, he adds, for other species.

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Futurist and writer Jamie Metzl, talking via Zoom for Dominic Bowden's WellBeings podcast.

We can dwell on the bad; its normal to dread how new technologies could be harnessed for harm and evil; but as a race and as individuals, the challenge is to imagine their positive potential and then push for them to be turned to improving our lot, Metzl says.

Hes troubled, for example, by the effects of industrial agriculture, be it on livestock, on environments or on people. He questions why we wouldnt use already-available technologies to grow meat in a bio-reactor, to produce animal protein that is meat at a cellular level and so avoid the cruelty and harm inflicted by mass-scale agricultural models.

Similarly, if we can grow energy, rather than dig it up and go to wars over it, why wouldnt we?

The Covid vaccines may be a more immediate example of how some will view the possibilities of technology as evil in themselves. Metzl sees them as amazing, the benefits they have delivered to humanity even more so.

The fact that we have this hope of the vaccines is just incredible. Because if we didnt have it, imagine this was like 100 years ago with the Spanish flu, and we just had to wait for this virus to burn through 7-8 billion humans. That would have been even more terrifying than this is.

For those who fear technology his advice is, just because something feels unnatural doesnt mean its wrong or dangerous... Everything we have felt unnatural and dangerous, until its normalised.

Nobody should be afraid of the technology in and of itself...

All of this stuff seems like magic until it shows up... [and then] it just becomes normal.

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The technology is straight out of a science fiction movie.Asteroid Slam

NASA is launching a spacecraft destined to slam into an asteroid as part of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission tonight, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Its purpose: to test whether were capable of deflecting a killer asteroid before it strikes Earth.

But before it meets its final destination, NASA is using the spacecraft to test out brand new ion drive technology and its straight out of a science fiction movie.

The space agencys Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) uses the spacecrafts solar power to create an electrical field. This field then accelerates a xenon propellant to speeds of up to 90,000 mph, harnessing the resulting stream of thousands of ion jets as propulsion.

Its not exactly a massive step up in power. The thruster generates a measly 236 micro Newtons of thrust, a tiny fraction of a much larger, fuel-based rocket engine.

But NEXT-C is still a major step up in power over previous ion propulsion systems used for other NASA missions.

The goal is to demonstrate that tiny spacecraft like DART are capable of propelling themselves on solar energy and a relatively small amount of xenon fuel alone by firing thrusters continuously for months or even years at a time.

Thanks to the complete lack of resistance, the thruster will be able to slowly accelerate the DART spacecraft up to 15,000 mph before it makes impact with the asteroid.

Its an exciting prospect. Ion drives could one day help make deep space exploration a reality, ending our reliance on using up much of a spacecrafts payload for fuel tanks and deep space probes are the perfect testbed.

READ MORE: NASAs asteroid-slamming mission will test new ion drive system [Space.com]

More on DART: Massive Asteroid That Could Obliterate Earth to Fly By, Case the Joint

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The world of motorcycles is peppered with unique builds lost to time. Every once in a while, they surface as a reminder the times builders created something like nothing else. This 1965 Express Kavalier 115 is like that and it would be the perfect pairing to that Virtual Steering Monkey from earlier this month.

In 1961, a collaboration of German manufacturers DKW, Express and Victoria called Zweirad Union released a moped that looks more like those concepts that never reach production. But it was real and its striking design earned it the nickname Tin Banana. The name of the little moped depended on the distributor, with the cycle also getting called the Victoria Type 115. The mopeds were all the same, with colors differentiating the distributors.

These mopeds are already rare from the jump, but they were never officially imported to the United States. That makes this 1965 Express Kavalier 115 on Bring a Trailer pretty special.

The Kavalier 115, like its siblings, feature a pressed-steel body. Like Italian scooters of the day, the Kavalier 115 hid the dirty mechanicals under pretty bodywork. Even the drive chain is all covered up.

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I love the amount of work put into making this thing pretty. Even the Zweirad Union 48cc two-stroke single looks like an art piece.

The little fan-cooled engine produces a wee 2 horsepower driving a three-speed transmission and drinking from a 12mm Bing carburetor. A moped engine could be left as-is, but no, Zweirad Union covered it with a chrome shroud.

If this German Wikipedia entry citing a book on the history of DKW motorcycles is true, then maintaining this thing is a lot of work. A spark plug change is said to require a bunch of tools and as pictures from the seller shows, simply getting to the fuel tank requires taking a part off.

That fuel tank in itself is pretty wild because it and the headlight shroud are one single piece.

This Express Kavalier 115 is said to have been owned by the seller for 31 years and its in immaculate condition.

How good is it? It won a best in class at the Boca Raton Concours dElegance in February 2020. The seller says that this paint is original and the moped has only seen a refurbishment before they got it. Over 56 years in this shape is amazing. Part of that is because it hasnt been ridden since the seller got it. Instead, it was displayed sans fluids.

The odometer reads the equivalent of 5,000 miles, but true mileage is unknown.

Its hard to say what the buyer should do with it. On one hand, the little thing hasnt been ridden in over 31 years. On the other, much of its value is going to be tied into the fact that its in such perfect condition. The buyer gets a sales brochure, the original German permit, a signed photo of Jay Leno riding a different Express Kavalier and a bill of sale.

For the current bid of $11,111 on Bring a Trailer with three days to go, its definitely one of the most distinctive things you can own.

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This Moped You've Never Heard Of Looks Like Nothing You've Ever Seen - Jalopnik

Theres no better time to stock up on chargers and power banks for your smartphone, laptop, or tablet. Anker, one of the best-known names in wireless technology, has some great deals during its Black Friday sale, now through November 28. Save up to 35 percent on chargers, hubs, power cables, generators, and more.

Heres a rundown of some of the best deals:

Charge four devices at the same time with this versatile device. Ankers PowerIQ 3 0-enabled USB-C port provides 45 watts of power to charge any compatible device fast, while three USB-A ports allow you to juice up your mobile devices at the same time. In addition, the charger is made with gallium nitride (GaN) instead of silicone for a sleeker design.

This two-port wall charger and foldable plug uses Ankers signature high-speed technology to charge almost any mobile device. Great for traveling, this charger works with USB-C compatible phones like the iPhone XR, Xs, Max, Plus, and more; the Galaxy S9 and 10; the Pixel 3a, 3, and XL; the iPad Pro, and more.

This easy-to-use wireless charger lets you power up on the go. Just set down your QI-certified phone or wireless earbuds to receive up to 5 watts of power. You can also simultaneously charge another device through one of two USB ports. The package also comes with a USB-A to USB-C cable and a travel pouch.

Turn your MacBook Pro into a media hub with this 7-in-2 USB C adapter, which allows you to expand your capabilities with a Thunderbolt USB-C port, a USB-C data port, two USB-A ports, one HDMI port, 1 SD card slot, and 1 microSD card slot. The hub allows for high-speed data transfer and multi-monitor display for clear streaming.

Be prepared for emergencies or just go camping with this powerful generator that can charge all your devices or power small appliances like a mini fridge. With 200Wh of power, this multi-port generator works with a USB-C car or wall charger, an AC power adapter, and solar power.

For more great holiday gifts, check out the Best Black Friday Deals of 2021.

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