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Thanks to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation (NIHFF) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Toasty Feet is also part of the first-year USPTO Museum in Alexandria, Va. Shoes: Innovations at Your Feet opened in July 2006 and features more than 70 displays highlighting the patents and trademarks, as well as the scientific and design innovations in footwear. The museum is free and open to the public. This exhibition will be on view for nine months from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon-5 p.m. on Saturday. “The producers of the Patent Office museum exhibit were so excited to find Toasty Feet at this year’s World Shoe Association Convention,” said Bruce McCormick, president of Memphis-based Polar Wrap LLC, makers of Toasty Feet. “They had been scouring the convention for the latest in shoe technology and upon seeing the Toasty Feet demonstration they knew that this product needed to be in the exhibit.” The exhibit’s displays have five categories: The Shoe Business is Born: a history of the footwear industry in America Off to Work: occupational footwear including professional sports Baby Steps: baby and children’s shoes The Shoe Doesn’t Fit: orthopedic and foot care remedies Putting on the Ritz: fashion, pop culture, and popular trends in shoes The USPTO Museum and store features more than 3,000-square feet of displays in a programmable curvilinear wall that utilizes video monitors, artifacts, interactive touch-screen exhibits, and vibrant graphics. Each display will tell the story of the role that intellectual property plays in this industry, including patents and trademarks of some of the world’s most famous brand names. Shoes highlights U.S. benchmarks in the early manufacturing of footwear; showing how shoes are an important element of work, how shoes continue to be a symbol of style, status, and wealth and how they figure into pop culture. Iconic shoes, plus amazing new directions and prototypes for footwear, have become part of the display. And, that’s where Polar Wrap’s Toasty Feet comes into play. “People generally don’t associate cutting edge technology with footwear, but Toasty Feet is changing that,” McCormick said. It’s all about using what’s known as “nano” technology to help solve cold feet problems. You don’t have to be standing in snow to have cold feet. In fact, many office workers working in air conditioning have cold feet. The problem is, McCormick said, shoes do not have insulation. All of which means, it doesn’t take long for someone’s feet to become the same temperature as the floor they’re standing on. In other words, if the room temperature is 70 degrees and you’re sitting still, your feet will lose heat to the 70-degree floor . . . and all of a sudden you have cold feet, even indoors. “Toasty Feet will provide users with a very thin and comfortable thermal barrier that works as well ion below zero conditions as it does indoors,” McCormick said. “Cold feet are cold feet. They don’t care what the temperature is.” Whats behind the amazing performance of ToastyFeet? ToastyFeet provides 39 times more insulating capacity than the best fiberglass insulation. It is 1000 times less dense than glass. Toasty Feet is made from Aerogel. Developed by NASA, this amazing insulating material is now available for your use. With a thermal efficiency rating of up to 10 times that of other high performance materials, Aerogel has no equal in providing protection from both heat and cold. Toasty Feet shoe insoles help your feet stay warm, using breakthrough technology developed for use in spacesuits. The advanced nanoporous material in Toasty Feet has the highest thermal insulation value of any solid material available today, allowing it to retain heat efficiently, while remaining light and thin enough to fit comfortably in almost any shoe or boot. Polar Wrap LLC is the technology leader in cold weather comfort. It’s other products include the Heat Exchanger Mask that traps warmth from exhaling breaths in order to warm cold air as it is inhaled. For additional information about Polar Wrap LLC and its products check out it’s websites at www.toastyfeet.com and www.polarwrap.com . Siddharth Samel Siddharth Samel Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
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