A look at the history of memory foam

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Acting in the 1967 hit movie The Graduate, Walter Brooke had no idea what that was forced as this piece of advice to Dustin Hoffman nut:

Mr. McGuire: I want to say a word. One word.

Benjamin: Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?

Benjamin: Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire: Plastics.

Brooke is surprised to be honest, "plastic", the stock market by storm, as early as next year. The success of plastic, used only by the limitedImagination has become one of the most important legacy of the 19 th Century and 20. When the Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols were ever to move to a new audience for his film, Mr. McGuire would have two new words of Benjamin: memory foam.

Memory foam is a material very space age. The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed the first generation of memory foam in 1970. Memory foam behaved like a liquid and a solid. You can pressThe surface of the material in your hand, and when it lifted, he could see, stay in your writing material for a short time as the material slowly returned to its original pot. The "memory" of the hand was strong at first and then faded with time. Realization of the ability of this new material for cushion and support, NASA, the Space Shuttle to use it as a way to take the edge of the G-force impact on astronauts during take-off body.

The firstGeneration of memory foam is never off the ground. It was too fragile and tend to break after a year or two. NASA forgotten.

A Swedish company closely associated with the project continued to play NASA memory foam with the mixture of polyurethane alone, and after ten years of further research, has produced a version that does not break down over time. It 'been a sponge, gel like plastic whose composite open cells could deform under pressure to distribute the airPockets to neighboring cells, and back. The next generation of memory foam came.

TEMPUR, today launched a widely known, now the marketing material to hospitals for mattress pads to reduce cases of pressure ulcers. The patient reported that these mattress pads significantly reduces the pressure on the joints while lying down, and at the same time, all the backing they needed. Riding the wave of rave reviews throughout the medical world, presented to the TEMPUR memory foamgeneral population in early 1990. It 'was very expensive at first, but soon other companies got wind of possible memory foam, and now there are dozens and dozens of companies that more and more memory foam products for demanding customers every day. Prices continue to fall.

Today, memory foam often used in mattresses, mattress pads and pillows, but the versatile material is also available as bedding for animals, shoes, positional sleep aids, office furniture, used carsSeat cushions, cradles infant and child seats, wheelchair cushions, hip pads and padded jogging pants, bags computers, film-row seats, gloves, gun, ear protection, tennis racket grips and more.

What would you do with the memory foam? "